Admin & User psswd in Suse Linux 10

[korshun77]

Hi to everyone!
I am new to this forum as well as to Linux, please accept my apologies if I have created existing topic. My lame search skills didn't allow me to find what I need.

So!
I have received HP Mini-Note PC with Suse Linux Enterprise 10 OS.
I have never worked with Linux before.
I don't know how to change Admin password
I don't know how to change user password


Could anyone advise me how to do this please ?
Thank you.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

You can go to a terminal, su to root, and enter the following command to change the root password:

passwd

...for changing the user password the following command is used:

passwd john

substituting the actual username for john.

[korshun77]

Welcome to the forums!

You can go to a terminal, su to root, and enter the following command to change the root password:

passwd

...for changing the user password the following command is used:

passwd john

substituting the actual username for john.

Hi Ozar ! Thanks for ur rather quick answer, but how do I reach single user mode ?

[Jonathan183]

If you don't know the root password try here ... last post for openSuSE
You can select runlevel by adding parameters to kernel at startup or after a console login you can select runlevels using init eg init 3

[korshun77]

I am sorry to be so dumb, but I could not do it , and I don't have Live CD to do it either. I am probably the dumbest user u ever experienced.

I'm reaching Grub stage where I have lines:
root (hd0, 1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda1 splash ->
initrd /boot/intrdinit

I tried many times as u guys instructed, but there was no joy.

Maybe I didn't understand when and how to enter or write.

I actually selected that line above with word kernel and pressed letter e and the typed word single and pressed Esc and pressed letter b , and then I was asked for root password to login.
That's it.
Please correct me if I did anything wrong.
Thanks again.

[Jonathan183]

I'm reaching Grub stage where I have lines:
root (hd0, 1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda1 splash ->
initrd /boot/intrdinit

Sounds like you already pressed escape to drop out of the menu ... selected the entry for Linux and pressed e to edit ... so after that ...
select kernel /boot.... and press e to edit then change line to

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 init=/bin/bash

then hit enter then b to boot.

[D-cat]

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[korshun77]

Hi guys! Please bear with my immature questions.
I seem to have changed my root password.

Could you explain to me what's the difference between User and Admin password ?

And is the Root password and Admin password the same thing ?

I have changed my root password and pressed to reboot, but it's loading and not reaching the graphic stage it is asking to login and I don't know what to enter.

[gogalthorp]

The admin user is not normally used and may have been set up to for some odd reason by the vendor. My guess is the admin is just a user that has been given root access rights. Traditionally the root user is the one used to administrate an installation. Note admin and root are not the same user and may not have all the same rights and abilities. Also they may not have the same passwords!

At the console login you should be asked to enter a login this is asking who (which user) you want to log in as. Next it will ask for that users password. If it just asked for a password then you are still in single user mode and the password would be the root user password. in any case log in as root (just type root) and then type

init 5

post any error messages

[korshun77]

Hi guys ! One of my friends said that root password can not be changed. Is that true ? And that I have to re-install Suse Linux 10 ?