lost root password

[Kumado]

I am using Suse 10.3

I was wanting to test recovering a lost root password on one system so I made a user account and thought I'd try to "recover" the user password.

I logged into the account with the password I had made, the account was fine.

I logged out of the user and back into root and "cleared" the user account password in the /etc/shadow file by removing everything between the 2 ':' , saved the file and then went back to attempt to log in the user account, I cannot get in by nothing or the old password.

I may set up a different machine to test on but if this is an accurate test, would I lose my install because of this?

Is it not the same for root and user?
Should I have changed something else?

just confused and looking.

Thanks

Kumado

[oz]

Check this HowTo for several ways to reset the root password:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-password.html

The first method is generally the easiest option.

[Kumado]

Thanks for the reply, I had been reading that thread as I found it on another search.

Just from the set up I have shown, do you see a reason why it would not work?

I feel like no method will work if the above will not.

I am setting up a couple machines so i can do testing but the above leads me to think it has little chances.

Again, thank you much for the reply.

Kumado