[Gllug] newbie/problem

Dylan dylan at dylan.me.uk
Mon Dec 9 21:02:16 UTC 2002


On Monday 09 December 2002 20:40, justin wrote:
> 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?

Log in as 'root' - you DID remember that password? and you can change the user 
passwords with yast2

If you've forgotten the root password, then short of rescue disks it's a 
reinstall... (I think)

Dylan

>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> wombat :-|

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