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Lazydog

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Jan 15, 2005, 5:24:29 PM1/15/05
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Hello Everyone.

How I can login Unix system Solaris 8. When I forgot my Admin Password.?

Thankyou


Ulf Volmer

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Jan 15, 2005, 8:06:23 PM1/15/05
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Lazydog <siu...@sympatico.ca> schrieb:

> Hello Everyone.
>
> How I can login Unix system Solaris 8. When I forgot my Admin Password.?

boot from cdrom/net, mount /, edit /etc/shadow, remove the third colum
for user root, reboot.

cu
ulf

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Ulf Volmer
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Lazydog

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Jan 16, 2005, 3:43:07 PM1/16/05
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Thankyou very much. The problem is I need Solaris 8 for Sparc that I don't
have. My Unix box is Ultra 1.I have Intel version.

Thankyou for your input.Thanks
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Dave Hinz

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Jan 16, 2005, 4:36:16 PM1/16/05
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:43:07 -0500, Lazydog <siu...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Thankyou very much. The problem is I need Solaris 8 for Sparc that I don't
> have. My Unix box is Ultra 1.I have Intel version.

You're the sysadmin, but you don't have a copy of Solaris media? I
smell a rat...what's the whole story here?

Lazydog

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Jan 16, 2005, 6:45:51 PM1/16/05
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Sorry , Someone gave me the system :)
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Dave Hinz

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Jan 17, 2005, 11:09:06 AM1/17/05
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:45:51 -0500, Lazydog <siu...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Sorry , Someone gave me the system :)

That would have been good to mention. And please don't top-post, it
fucks up the threading of the conversation.

To your problem, sounds like you need to get some solaris media.

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