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Resetting a lost root password

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I have a SUN Ultra 5 with Solaris 8 but I don´t have the root password. I have booted the station with the option "boot cdrom -s" with the Solaris 8 installation CD. I have mounted the /dev/c0t0d0s0 partition and I have tried to edit the /etc/passwd file with the vi editor. But each time I want to save the changes made using the w! option an error appears telling me that the file system is Read Only. Could you tell me how could I override this protection. Thanks!

Reply:

Make sure that you are editing the mounted password file. i.e. /dev/c0t0d0s0 is mounted on /mnt, vi /mnt/etc/passwd.

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Name: David Perry
Date: June 10, 2005 at 04:30:36 Pacific

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http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=21556&tstart=0

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