[Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!

[ds]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sunhelp at orn.net [mailto:sunhelp at orn.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:38 PM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!
> >
> >
> > > Thank you everyone for the quick responses... unfortunatly
> > the Admin has
> >
> > Is this guy by any chance a Windows NT turned Solaris admin?
> 
> You mean that there's another way to manage users than editing /etc/passwd?
> Besides, if you don't break it, how you gonna learn anything?

Well.. this is where I fall in.  I have never had this situation come up
because I am VERY paranoid with the root account anyway.  Yet, I seamed
to remember something from the Sun class I went to where the instructor
had said that there was some way to get back in through single user...

... thus I asked the question to the group... and the learning
continues.

I am by far a Solaris expert.  Actually we have 11 Sparcs (2 E3500's,
3 E450's and 6 Ultra 5's) in a shop of 4,000 computers (WinTel).  My
job is Network Management, but since I have "some" background in UNIX...
it is now part of my job.
(another hat to wear with no extra $$$)

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