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

How to reset forgotten root password in SuSE Enterprise Server

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 [...]

How to install OpenOffice.org in SLES from a SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ISO file

After installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11), there are some packages that may be required that’s not on the SLES 11 DVD but is available from the SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) DVD. One such example is OpenOffice.org. If you already have the SLED DVD, you can install from it by [...]