[Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question

[William Anderson]

neil sinclair wrote:

> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> No joy on the 'su fiona' thing.

sorry if this sounds daft, but have you tried simply editing the password 
out of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as relevant?

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