Vicibox HELP to reset password

[aplanet]

Hello,
I accidentally may have misstyped the password and
Now i cant login .
I have googled how to reset recover opensuse 13.1 password but without luck
Any idea?

[aplanet]

I did googled more and i found a something ,
Problem solved . For anyone else that has the same issue

Press 'e' at the boot menu (with the openSUSE entry selected) to get to edit mode.
Search for a line starting with "linux" and append "init=/bin/sh" at the end.
Then press 'F10' to boot.

You should get into a minimal text mode system without having to enter any password.
Type "passwd" to change the root password.

reference:
forums.opensuse.org

[rrb555]

cool postback..

[Kumba]

A little late, but yes, that is the method. Other option is to boot off a live CD and nuke the root password.

I did googled more and i found a something ,
Problem solved . For anyone else that has the same issue

Press 'e' at the boot menu (with the openSUSE entry selected) to get to edit mode.
Search for a line starting with "linux" and append "init=/bin/sh" at the end.
Then press 'F10' to boot.

You should get into a minimal text mode system without having to enter any password.
Type "passwd" to change the root password.

reference:
forums.opensuse.org

[ayan07]

Hi I tried the same method but always getting error as "Password Unchanged , authentication token lock busy"

Please advise as i am having same issue and need to reset root password

[thephaseusa]

Append to linux single will still get you into single user mode wont it?

[williamconley]

or boot from a live CD and put your KEY in the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file after

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mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

to get the value after /dev/ you usually choose the last partition in the first HD in the system. This will show you the list of live HD partitions available

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ll /dev/disk/by-uuid

then you put your key in /mnt/root/.ssh/authorized_keys (since the partition is loaded into /mnt)

then you can log in via putty with a key instead of a pass ... and change the password.

[thephaseusa]

Ayan07 you booted into read only filesystem mode?

[ayan07]

@thephaseusa yes its resolved now ,, thanks for tour help ..

[ayan07]

@williamconley yes its resolved now ,, thanks for tour help ..