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root password recovery
Name: toemik Date: July 25, 2001 at 07:47:45 Pacific
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An incindent occurred ( not by me) that resulted in the root password not being accepted. On servers with a cdrom the process to correct is easy enough but has had anyone done it without the cdrom. My only thought is to remove the system disks and mount on another system and change the shadow file - but this a last straw.
Name: karl j Date: July 31, 2001 at 13:42:54 Pacific
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Yes thats the way i have done it also...
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Response Number 2
Name: Austin Coppock Date: August 1, 2001 at 06:55:28 Pacific
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I would say the option you mentioned is the only way. Since you said the CD-ROM method is no good, I take it that installing an external CD-ROM (if you have a SCSI available) is out of the question also. Installing the HD in another system would not be that hard and wouldn't really take any longer that the CD-ROM method.
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Response Number 3
Name: amit kondekar Date: September 18, 2001 at 21:39:47 Pacific
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i have forgot password of my unix os. can u guide me how to recover unix password.
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