[Sunhelp] root password forgotten
Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Oct 11 14:13:05 CDT 2000
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:29:13AM -0700, Gang Ren wrote:
> Boot in sigle user, and delete the password in /etc/passed file.
Doesent work - you ahve to know the root password to *get* to
single user. What you have to do is boot to single-user from a
CD-ROM, mount up the HD's / partition, then edit the password file
on that partition..
bill
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Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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