[SunHELP] forgot root password

[Steve Wingate]

  1.. grab a solaris cdrom and put it in your cdrom drive
  2.. hit stop+a
  3.. at the 'ok' prompt, type boot cdrom -s
  4.. cd /tmp
  5.. mkdir /tmp/xxx
  (doesn't matter what xxx is)
  6.. mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/root/xxx
  (where c0t0d0s0 is the location of your root drive)
  7.. start csh
  8.. setenv TERM vt220
  9.. cp /tmp/root/xxx/shadow /tmp/root/xxx/shadow/shadow.oops
  10.. vi /tmp/root/xxx/shadow and delete the encrypted password on the
root account
  11.. reboot, login with root a nd no password, and reset your root
password

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raghu Kota" <raghukota at hotmail.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] forgot root password


>
> Go to OK prompt and try to change and get in to the system.
>
>
>
> >From: "sridhar n" <sri_en at indiainfo.com>
> >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: [SunHELP] forgot root password
> >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:08:10 +0530
> >
> >hi all
> >i forgot my root password
> >please help how to recover
> >
> >thanks
> >sridhar
> >
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