[SunHELP] urgent help

[Will Mc Donald]

Bring the machine to the OBP, I assume an init 0 is out of the question so a
powerdown will probably be unavoidable. Bring the machine up and get it to
the ok prompt, stop-A or I think break-A should do this while it's checking
memory before it boots.

Put in a bootable Solaris CD and then from the ok prompt...

ok boot cdrom -s

Once it's booted, mount the root partition, probably c0t0d0s0 though not
definately.

# cd /tmp
# mkdir /tmproot
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/tmproot
# cd tmproot/etc

Then you need to edit /tmproot/etc/passwd and/tmproot/etc/shadow and remove
the x in the 2nd field in passwd and the asdfhlakjhd in the 2nd field
shadow. init 6 and the box should boot without a root password.

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Okan CIMEN" <okan at cimen.org>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:25 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] urgent help


Hello,

One of my colleagues has lost a servers root password and needs help from
me. Since he is far away from the server, only I can help him. I know that I
need to boot the system via cd-rom. But can anyone suggest me what path
shall I take step by step?

Regards

Okan