[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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