User Account

Liquiddragon · 01-13-2008, 04:48 PM

I am running on Suse Linux 10.1, when I login, i am logged in as user1, this is the only User Account in logins screen. When I go to my home folder and try to go to a file called root, with a lock symbol on it, it says I have to login to Root. I go into the User Account but only user is user1, am I not the administrator?

hal8000 · 01-14-2008, 10:50 AM

One of the last routines in setting up Suse 10.1 is to enter a password for the root account (administrator).

You will have been asked this question, you can chose not to set a password but that would be insecure, if you cant remember it you have a few choices:
1) boot with a live CD, i.e Knoppix.
Mount your suse partition i.e sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
(change hda1 to your root partition)
Changeroot into the mounted filesystem
chroot /mnt/hda1
sudo passwd
(enter a new root password and reboot)
2) Reinstall
3) Try the suse rescue disk and see if you can get into single user mode, if youre a nwbie, sometimes easy option is to reinstall - sorry.

But youre not alone, we've all lost root passwords as newbies.
HTH

Liquiddragon · 01-14-2008, 08:37 PM

I actually do know and remember the password so where do i go from there?

lensman3 · 01-16-2008, 09:43 AM

In the screen that has "user1", type in "root" (without the quotes) and the password. That should log you on. I think that the GUI/X11 screens will complain that you are running as root and tell you politely that "you are stupid" to log in as root. Ignore them! The user name for "administrator" on UNIX/LINUX is "root".

Take a look at the "su" commmand (SuperUser) and the "sudo" command. The sudo command will do one command at a time as superuser, if you have the stroke to become superuser. Do both of these commands from a terminal window (the "xterm" command for a simple terminal window). Control-D deletes the window.

01-13-2008, 04:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Liquiddragon Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 99 OS: Windows XP	User Account I am running on Suse Linux 10.1, when I login, i am logged in as user1, this is the only User Account in logins screen. When I go to my home folder and try to go to a file called root, with a lock symbol on it, it says I have to login to Root. I go into the User Account but only user is user1, am I not the administrator?

01-14-2008, 10:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
hal8000 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: UK Posts: 229 OS: PCLinux2009/Ubuntu/XP	Re: User Account One of the last routines in setting up Suse 10.1 is to enter a password for the root account (administrator). You will have been asked this question, you can chose not to set a password but that would be insecure, if you cant remember it you have a few choices: 1) boot with a live CD, i.e Knoppix. Mount your suse partition i.e sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (change hda1 to your root partition) Changeroot into the mounted filesystem chroot /mnt/hda1 sudo passwd (enter a new root password and reboot) 2) Reinstall 3) Try the suse rescue disk and see if you can get into single user mode, if youre a nwbie, sometimes easy option is to reinstall - sorry. But youre not alone, we've all lost root passwords as newbies. HTH

01-14-2008, 08:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
Liquiddragon Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 99 OS: Windows XP	Re: User Account I actually do know and remember the password so where do i go from there?

01-16-2008, 09:43 AM	#4 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 470 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: User Account In the screen that has "user1", type in "root" (without the quotes) and the password. That should log you on. I think that the GUI/X11 screens will complain that you are running as root and tell you politely that "you are stupid" to log in as root. Ignore them! The user name for "administrator" on UNIX/LINUX is "root". Take a look at the "su" commmand (SuperUser) and the "sudo" command. The sudo command will do one command at a time as superuser, if you have the stroke to become superuser. Do both of these commands from a terminal window (the "xterm" command for a simple terminal window). Control-D deletes the window.