All, In order to recoverthe root passwd in my SUN Box I followed the below mentioned procedure as adviced in the forum. By STOP+A and #boot cdrom -s --> OK # cd /tmp --> OK # mkdir /tmp/root --> Failed.Directory already present. root partition is c0t0d0s0 #mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/root --------> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 is already mounted, /tmp/root is busy, or the available number of mount points has been exceeded. # csh # setenv TERM vt100 No shadow file in /tmp/root/etc directory. Appreciate your Help to recover the system. Greetings for the Seasons to ALL !!

Its been awhile since I did this but I think these are the steps. stop a boot cdrom -s mount -f hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a or /mnt, both are just temporary mount points. TERM=vt100; export TERM cd to whichever mount point you mounted too (ex. cd /mnt/etc) don't forget to put the mount point in front of /etc because if not you'll just cd to /etc the system dir. cd /mnt/etc or /a/etc and vi shadown file, delete encrypted password, unmount cd and then reboot, when system comes back up, it will be blank. Hope this helps.