[SunHELP] su to root does not force password prompt

[Nicholas Pesce]

The only addendum I have to this, as mirroring is more common. Make
sure that the root filesystem is not mirrored.  If it is mirrored.  Do
what Les explained, but on both sides of the mirror.  (I
managed to waste an hour aggrivating myself before I figured this little
problem out [I didn't realize the system was mirrored]).

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Les wrote:

> Don't know if this works the same in earlier versions
> of Solaris
> Assuming you're using SOL 5.6 or later and IIRC
> If you have truly lost access to root and can get to the 
> firmware ok prompt (and have a cdrom drive)
>    boot cdrom -s
> when you have access to cdrom O/S
>    /etc/mount /dev/c0t0d0s0 /mnt 
> (assuming that that is your boot drive)
>   cd /mnt/etc
>   vi ./shadow
> You may have to give full path if vi not found.
> remove the root shadow passwd
>  cd
>  reboot
> and I'm pretty sure that the
> system will come up without a root passwd.
> If asked for a password, pressing Enter
> should suffice.
> 
> 
> Les
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rainer Feil" <r_feil at yahoo.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:55 AM
> Subject: [SunHELP] su to root does not force password prompt
> 
> 
> > .. in this case where the password is expired.
> > It just says "Sorry".
> > I tried that on Solaris 7.
> > What do I need to do to get the password prompt to be
> > able to change the root password in case it is expired
> > ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rainer (r_feil at yahoo.com)
> > 
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