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Comment on How to reset forgotten root password in SuSE Enterprise Server by jg

jg — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:01:16 +0000

It works

But if you have LVM , at step 3 you need :

#vgscan
( system vg should be discovered)
#vgchange -a y system
#mount /dev/system/root /mnt
#vi /mnt/etc/shadow

Also step 10 you need to mount /usr before to run passwd command
#mount /usr

Thanks for your tuto.

salsabel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:35:10 +0000

Hi, I tried the steps above until step 9. I managed to login without passwd into my system.

Eventually, I got stuck when I type passwd. The system said that
bash: passwd: command not found

please be advise.

thank you in advance.

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Mikhail — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:57:41 +0000

Big Thanks!!!

David — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:29:24 +0000

Great article! Worked the first time and saved me hours of reloading.

Thanks!

lopez — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:33:15 +0000

It works!

Thanks.

Antani — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:55:12 +0000

It worked on SLES 10 like a charm!
only put 1 at boot

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cyberorg — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:43:44 +0000

It does not work like that on SUSE

Try it out and see it booting in runlevel 1 work without giving root password.

try “init=/bin/bash” in place of “1″