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How to reset forgotten root password in SuSE Enterprise Server

April 5, 2009 – 11:16 pm

We do sometimes forget our passwords and what more when we don’t login to that particular account regularly.  As good system administrators who automate most of the administrative tasks, we sometimes do not login to the root account often.  This is especially so for a highly reliable and robust SLES based system. Our earlier posting [...]

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Novell Launches SuSE 11

March 23, 2009 – 7:35 pm

Novell on Wednesday (24th March 2009) launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, with the capability for policy-driven system management and enhancements to its high-availability clustering. SLES 11 also will soon be certified to run in the Amazon EC2 cloud, Novell officials said.

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What’s the difference between “su” and “su –”?

March 6, 2009 – 4:54 am

We get asked this question quite often and maybe it is good to give a simple explanation.  “su” by itself means that you would like to assume the super user identity.  You can also assume the identity of another user using “su <userid>”.

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How to recover OpenSuse Lost Root Password

February 16, 2009 – 11:19 pm

Hopefully not but from time to time, we may somehow forgot what our root password is.  This can happen in the case where you are managing a teaching laboratory, CAD/CAM workstations or your grandmother’s OpenSuSE PC!  These are situations where once the machine is setup, you rarely need to have system administration access.  So, the [...]

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