Help! My old sparc 5 station died and I bought a new (used) one on Ebay. it is working fine but I do not have any user's password, nore root's password. I did some reading here and got information of how to reset the password. Now, I'm booting as a single user from original solaris installation CD 2.5.1. but when I mounting: mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a I get in return : /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 write-protected. if i continue the steps as I read in this forum and I get to the stage of editing the shadow file, it is also read only and I cant save it in any way. How can I remove the write only protection?? I've tried chmod - but no luck, any other tricks? PLEASE HELP ! I need the station working ASAP. THANKS.

The shadow file is meant to be read-only, however if changes need to be done to it, you have the option of using the bang symbol (exclamation point) when you save in vi. This will force a save on the file. In vi command mode, type :!w instead of :w D.O.

Thank you, but that wasn't it. I did manage to solve the problem after I discovered that the system didn't recognized the hard-drive while I was booting from the cdrom (external SCSI). after resolving that isuue, I discovered that the file system was on c0t3d0s0 and not on c0t0d0s0 as all messages I read refered to. after solving these problems everything went smooth - as I read here in the forum. THANKS, I'M HAPPY !