[SunHELP] forgetten password

[John_Kennedy]

"Korkmaz, Murat" wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> there is this sun ultra box running sonOS 5.6 or solaris 2.6 and we dont
> know the password to get in, so is there anybody wanna help us how to
> circumvent this password thing locally.
> Box is not on the netwotk.
> any help will be appreciated.
> thanks in advance.
> murat
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boot cdrom -s
mount your / partition to mnt dir (mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt)
cd /mnt/etc
vi passwd
remove password for root (not entire line just the encrypted password between
the :)
reboot
John