Suse & OpenSuse : Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, How Tos and Troubleshooting

How to create user with password assigned

April 9, 2009 – 5:56 am

If you create new users (as root) using
# useradd –m tux

You will have created a newuser with it being disabled.  This means that the password entry (the 2nd column) in the /etc/shadow will have a ! as the entry, i.e.
tux:!:14343:0:99999:7:::

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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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