Fwd: Re: [SunHELP] forgot root password

[Edward Chase]

Here's a repost from 2 days ago...


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>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:06:20 -0700
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>   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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