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Is there any remedy except reinstalling the whole system,
if the root password is forgotten?

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

Quote:> Thanks a lot!

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This should do it....
Good luck.

Quote:>Dear All,

>Is there any remedy except reinstalling the whole system,
>if the root password is forgotten?

>Any suggestions?

>Thanks a lot!

Quote:>    With Sparc hardware and Solaris, get the system stopped and type
>boot cdrom -sw   After a fairly long wait, you will get a shell prompt.
>At that point, you can mount the root slice of your disk, set the TERM
>environment variable, and run vi on the /<mountpoint>/etc/passwd file
>and
>delete the root password.

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        If you haven't thought to set up a trusted host in advance, you're
probably going to have to schedule downtime and break into the
system with the OS CD-ROM.

        Some versions of UNIX will boot single user without asking for a
password so you could try that too.

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Jacky

Another option is to boot the system into single user mode from a
system installation cd, since you are now root w/o any password, mount
the system disk as /a and remove roots encrypted password from the
/a/etc/passwd or /a/etc/shadow file.  Then halt the system, and reboot
from the system disk in single user mode, login as root (no password
required)
and set the new password.

Thanks to all the Gurus'advice.
My Sun workstation is running Solaris 5.7. But now the problem is I
only have installation CD with lower release. I failed to reboot from
the CD. I am considering whether I can take the advange of another Sun
workstation running the same OS, whose root password, luckily hasn't
been forgotten.
Is there any tricky method?
(Can I make a boot floppy disk? How? )