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My school gave me a dump with different partition, I have to Work on the linux one, it's a open suse modified by the school.. sometimes I need to be root for install stuff with zypper example, they don't want to tell us how to be root, I look everywhere I can on Internet but I still dont know how to do.
I can be root for only one session, I have to press "e" then put init=/bin/sh at the end of the "linux = " in the starting option I think to start a single user mode prompt, then make passwd then passwd root, then vi /etc/sudoers, add ## at the beginning of 2 lines then reboot, launch my session make sudo su, and it's ask me my_username's password.
If I don't do all the stuff before it ask me root's password... I tried evreything to swith me in the groups of root but it didn't change anything
Pablo Clsn
Posted 2015-12-06T17:01:01.497
Reputation: 11
"they don't want to tell us how to be root" We are not going to tell you how to break restrictions on a computer owned by someone else. Ask your IT administrator. – DavidPostill – 2015-12-06T17:29:18.773
oh no I am the owner of the computer, in my school they make us buy the computer the beginning of the year, we all have the same in my promotion, they just give us a dump, a linux partition and a windows one. – Pablo Clsn – 2015-12-06T17:57:11.323
it's my computer, there is only dump the gave us that have been modified, and we have to found how to be root but i tried everything and it's still not working – Pablo Clsn – 2015-12-06T17:58:41.537
So it's an assignment to find out how to root the partition? – DavidPostill – 2015-12-06T18:03:30.260
they want from us to find how to be root, it's a computer school.. ;) (sorry for my english) – Pablo Clsn – 2015-12-06T18:09:38.137
Then you should do it yourself. Otherwise it is cheating. – DavidPostill – 2015-12-06T18:10:19.510
it's been since the beginning of the year i tried .. 3 months – Pablo Clsn – 2015-12-06T18:15:38.963
Just pretend you forgot the root password, then Google it. – MariusMatutiae – 2015-12-07T07:51:10.940