[Sunhelp] root password forgotten

[Jarrett Carver]

You could try downloading a linux distro and creating a bootable CD. Or if 
you have more than one SUN box, just put the drive as a secondary drive into 
another box. Mount it and edit the /etc/passwd.


>From: "Muhammad Harisun (EID)" <Muhammad.Harisun at eid.ericsson.se>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] root password forgotten
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:58:47 +0800
>
>Unfortunately I 've no boot server. poor I am .
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Evan Randolph Pangilinan [mailto:evans at sun.com.ph]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:49 AM
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] root password forgotten
>
>
>"Muhammad Harisun (EID)" wrote:
>
> > Hello fellows,
> >
> > I am facing problem , one of SUN server's root password is fogotten
> > unfortunately we have no CD media in place. Is there any way to recover
>root
> > password without CDROM .
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hsrisun
> > _______________________________________________
> > SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> > http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
>
>hi!
>i think one way is to boot from network single-user-mode,  if you have  a
>boot
>server, example:
>
>     ok boot net -s ( but i havent tried it yet)
>
>hope this gives you an idea,
>Evan Pangilinan
>
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Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
solarboyz1 at hotmail.com   Unix/NT Systems Administrator
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