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Proplems with root password. CANT GET IN
Name: Collin Date: April 23, 2002 at 05:57:13 Pacific
Comment:
Last night something happened to my Unix (SCO) machine and now I cannot login as root. The date on the /etc/passwd file is about 3 weeks old and I didn't change the password. Does anyone know how to fix this? I can still log in as a regular user, but not as root. Please help!
Name: PaulS Date: April 24, 2002 at 08:56:21 Pacific
Reply:
In general, you'll have to boot the system off something other than the system disk. A cdrom, etc.
Then mount the root filesystem on say /mnt. At that point you can cd into /mnt/etc and get at the passwd file (or shadow file since the password is encrypted there in many SVR4 versions of unix).
Either restore a known good passwd file or use vi to remove the encrypted passwd field for root (no passwd set).
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Response Number 2
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