Re: [suse-security] password recovery

["Lyle Giese" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As was pointed out in one of the private messages to me, you have to edit
inittab to allow that.  And one of my points in the question, was you did
not have that opportunity prior to having to do password recovery.

It can be done in suse, but just not 'out of the box'.

Lyle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Satterwhite" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "John Andersen" <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <suse-security@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-security] password recovery


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On Saturday 24 July 2004 16:14, John Andersen wrote:
> On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:14 am, Lyle Giese wrote:
> > In RH, you could boot into single user mode and be auto
> > connected as root without knowing the password.
>
> And you have conclusively proven that the same method
> will not work in SuSE?

It's been a while, but I proved it in 8.1. I had a root password get
corrupted, I have no idea how, but it did. When I tried to log in single
user, it wanted the root password. I used a Knopix CD, mounted my root
partition, cleared the root password in shadow, and was able to get it back.


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