Fwd: Re: [SunHELP] forgot root password

[Edward Chase]

Crap.  I noticed the Intel word as it fired off.

Obviously Stop+A and the OK prompt doesn't apply here...

There still must be some way of booting into single user mode using the 
Solaris CD.



At 11:23 AM 9/13/2001 -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
>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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