[Gllug] newbie/problem

[Andrew Halliwell]

> Hello!
> 
> I've just installed SuSe linux 7.3 on my PC, however an error ocurred with
> my username and password creation during the installation process.
> 
> So now I have installed distribution I find that my username/password
> doesn't work so I can't logon. :-(.  Is there some way I can check or just
> change this without re-installing from scratch?

Yes.
Boot the CD in rescue mode.
When it's loaded, mount the root partition you created on /mnt and edit
/mnt/etc/shadow

The top item should be root, so you just edit that line, removing the random
letters and numbers between the 1st and 2nd :

(That's the encrypted password, remove that and just typing root will log
you in... then you can change the passwords of any users you created with
the passwd command)

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