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Lost Root password - Unixware 7
Name: Leigh Date: March 7, 2001 at 13:38:31 Pacific
Comment:
I had a server crash and can no longer use the root login as the password has changed. Is there anyway of restoring the root password?
Name: Wolfram Kraft Date: March 7, 2001 at 22:21:01 Pacific
Reply:
hi Leigh,
don't know anything about Unixware. In most cases it is sufficient to boot to single-user mode, mount your filesystems r/w and set a new root-pw with the passwd-cmd. You needn't know the old pw to change root's pw in su-mode.
greet$ Wolfie
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Response Number 2
Name: James Smyth Date: March 25, 2001 at 12:12:37 Pacific
Reply:
But don't you usually need the root password to boot into single-user mode? I know my IRIX machine does.
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Response Number 3
Name: eeb22 Date: March 28, 2001 at 12:01:57 Pacific
Reply:
- boot from the installation disk. - fsck root partition ie: fsck -y /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 - mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a - using favorite editor edit /a/etc/shadow if using shadowing, else edit /a/etc/passwd and make the second field for root null ie: root:fhsdhfhsd:16655:::::: would become root::16655:::::: - reboot -- -s (reboot space hyphen hyphen space hyphen s) login as root and set the passwd
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