by WCK » Sat, 12 Feb 2000 04:00:00
Can anyone please tell me how to break into the root's password or better
still upgrade the OS?
thanks
by Neil W Ricker » Sun, 13 Feb 2000 04:00:00
To upgrade, you will need to have somebody set up a way of booting
across the network (in which case you could use that to fix the
passwd problem).
by Robert Angelin » Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:00:00
> >I inherited an old sun sparc station with solaris 2.4. The password for root
> >is not available and the sparc don't have a cdrom nor a tape backup for me
> >to do an alternate system bootup.
> >Can anyone please tell me how to break into the root's password or better
> >still upgrade the OS?
> >thanks
> For changing roots password, you can remove the disk, and install it
> in another machine, and edit your '/etc/passwd' there.
sync;sync;sync;reboot
--
Robert Angelino
Director of Software Development
High Tower Software Inc.
(949) 852-2233
by Joe Durusa » Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:00:00
Speaking only for myself,
Joe Durusau
> > >I inherited an old sun sparc station with solaris 2.4. The password for root
> > >is not available and the sparc don't have a cdrom nor a tape backup for me
> > >to do an alternate system bootup.
> > >Can anyone please tell me how to break into the root's password or better
> > >still upgrade the OS?
> > >thanks
> > For changing roots password, you can remove the disk, and install it
> > in another machine, and edit your '/etc/passwd' there.
> There's a much easier way to do this... Boot off the Solaris CD
> and somehow get to the shell. OInce in the shell, mount the
> partition which corresponds to where / is on. Once you
> mounted it, edit the /<mountpoint>/etc/passwd
> or /<mountpoint>/etc/shadow.
> sync;sync;sync;reboot
> --
> Robert Angelino
> Director of Software Development
> High Tower Software Inc.
> (949) 852-2233
by Bruce Porte » Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:00:00
> I believe he said that htere wasn't a CDROM on the thing. In that case,
> the easiest thing to do is boot net at the <ok> prompt. Of course, this assumes
> that you have a boot server set up on the net, and that you have the proper
> license to upgrade the system. If you look at docs.sun.com, they will have info
> on doing an upgrade across the net. If you have only a stand-alone system,
> buy a CDROM. It would be cheap at twice the price.
> Speaking only for myself,
> Joe Durusau
> > > >I inherited an old sun sparc station with solaris 2.4. The password for root
> > > >is not available and the sparc don't have a cdrom nor a tape backup for me
> > > >to do an alternate system bootup.
> > > >Can anyone please tell me how to break into the root's password or better
> > > >still upgrade the OS?
> > > >thanks
> > > For changing roots password, you can remove the disk, and install it
> > > in another machine, and edit your '/etc/passwd' there.
> > There's a much easier way to do this... Boot off the Solaris CD
> > and somehow get to the shell. OInce in the shell, mount the
--Quote:> > partition which corresponds to where / is on. Once you
> > mounted it, edit the /<mountpoint>/etc/passwd
> > or /<mountpoint>/etc/shadow.
> > sync;sync;sync;reboot
Bruce Porter
DTV Server Support
by Joe Durusa » Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:00:00
Speaking only for myself,
Joe Durusau
> ON 2.4 you should be able to just boot -s and it should dump you in
> single user mode with no passwd required and you could then just edit
> out your passwd.
> >I inherited an old sun sparc station with solaris 2.4. The password for root
> >is not available and the sparc don't have a cdrom nor a tape backup for me
> >to do an alternate system bootup.
> >Can anyone please tell me how to break into the root's password or better
> >still upgrade the OS?
> >thanks
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