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Lost root password
Name: Simon Date: July 17, 2002 at 10:02:20 Pacific
Comment:
How do I recover from a lost root password on AIX 5L?
I haven't worked with 5L but in earlier versions of AIX you can boot off the CDROM, go into maintanence mode, mount the root filesystem and edit /etc/security/passwd and remove the password. I would guess that 5L would work the same way.
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