root password recovery solaris 8 - IA

[john fontejon]

forgot my root password on my intel box, could someone tell me how to
recover the password, or tell me how to get to single user mode to make a
new one?

thanks.

-Gerald

[Jochem Steman]

"john fontejon" <font...@email.com> wrote in message
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Hi

from the ok-prompt:

ok boot -s cdrom

then: mount the /

create/modify now the:
- /etc/shadow
- /etc/password
- /etc/group

Regards,
- Jochem

[Steve Menard]

From the OK prompt
ok boot -ws cdrom
mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt (or what ever you root slice is)
Set term
TERM=vt100;export TERM
vi /mnt/etc/shadow
delete the encrypted protion of the root entry

Example root:WxzL460hohWsU:10724::::::
remove the WxzL460hohWsU
Make sure you still have all 8 colons.
reboot.
This will leave you with NO root password. Change it as soon as it comes
up.

Steve.

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[Philip Brown]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:30:03 -0000, opsm...@yahoo.com wrote:
>From the OK prompt
>ok boot -ws cdrom
>mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt (or what ever you root slice is)
>Set term
>TERM=vt100;export TERM
>vi /mnt/etc/shadow
>delete the encrypted protion of the root entry
>
>Example root:WxzL460hohWsU:10724::::::

vi??? booo! Too much overhead.. and you have to set that namby pamby
TERM var. :-)
PLUS, have a working /var/tmp

Shorten the above to either:

# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt (or what ever you root slice is)
# sed 's/:WxzL460hohWsU:/::/' /mnt/etc/shadow >s
# mv s /mnt/etc/shadow

or if you prefer
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt (or what ever you root slice is)
# ed /mnt/etc/shadow
1s/root:[^:]*:/root::/
wq

:-)

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[Tony Wang]

I have an Ultra 60 without root password. When I boot it up, it asks the
root passowrd or control-d. I do not get OK prompt. How do I get it to
boot from cdrom or change the password?

Tony
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[Logan Shaw]

In article <GkMi6.11431$Nj5.7...@bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,

Tony Wang <swan...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I have an Ultra 60 without root password. When I boot it up, it asks the
>root passowrd or control-d. I do not get OK prompt.

You have to hit Stop-A during the boot process (early on is best)
to get the "ok" prompt.

- Logan
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[Xueqing Xu]

Steve Menard wrote:

> From the OK prompt
> ok boot -ws cdrom

After this, I have no chance to mount anything.

Ctrl-D to normal mode ( or
Enter root password to maintain )

How to ..?? Thanks in advance.

[Fan Yang]

I can't mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 ( /). Do you know why?

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[Philip Brown]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:23:19 -0600, yf...@yahoo.com wrote:
>I can't mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 ( /). Do you know why?

it helps to post error messages.

[Mike Shimony]

I'm tring to get the time in microseconds in a kernel driver.
I know I can get the clock ticks since the last reboot from the LBOLT
parameter. On Solaris 2.6 this is only a 32 bit value, so it seems like it's
going to overflow pretty fast, and become negative (as the man page says).

Is this the best way to get the time in usecs? I'm only interested in the
difference from some point back in time, I dont need the current time.
Thanks.

Mike

[Mike Shimony]

I accidentaly posted this as a reply to another message the first time i
sent it.