diff --git a/Utils/distroutils.py b/Utils/distroutils.py
index cdc4acea0..b6b611eb6 100644
--- a/Utils/distroutils.py
+++ b/Utils/distroutils.py
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ def get_my_distro(config):
         if re.search("freebsd", os_name, re.IGNORECASE):
             # FreeBSD
             return FreeBSDDistro(config)
+        if re.search("sles", os_name, re.IGNORECASE):
+            # SuSE
+            return SuSEDistro(config)
     return GenericDistro(config)
 
 
@@ -512,3 +515,10 @@ def create_account(self, user, password, expiration, thumbprint):
 
     def delete_account(self, user):
         ext_utils.run(['/sbin/usermod', user, '-G', ''])
+
+
+class SuSEDistro(GenericDistro):
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super(SuSEDistro, self).__init__(config)
+        self.ssh_service_name = 'sshd'
+        self.distro_name = "SuSE"