Recover password in Linux SuSE 10

After not using my root password for a long time, I needed it today.

But I couldn’t remember it anymore! I could login with my regular user ‘dgielis’, but that was it… My user didn’t have enough privileges to change system settings or do other “root” things. I was just a regular user.

I searched for changing my root password… and finally found it.

This is how I did it:

- On the boot screen (Gui Boot Loader of SuSE) type “init=/bin/bash”

- You get a terminal screen with almost nothing initialized or loaded (! attention keyboard lay-out can be different)

- Type at the bash prompt: mount -o remount,rw /

- To change the password, type: passwd (give a new password)

- This worked for me, if it doesn’t work for you, this link can help you further.