Summary: The common method says you have to boot from cdrom (volume 1) or mksysb tape, access the root volume group, edit the /etc/security/passwd file and bla...
Summary: If anyone can help.....? Having recently acquired a 7026-M80, without root password details, which I am attempting to recover using the OS installati...
Summary: How to recover a lost or forgotten password Solaris. If you have lost or forgotten the root password on your Sun Sparc system here are some instructio...
Summary: Hi Sai, do you would like to recreate the original root password or would it be enough to get root access and change the unknowen password ? Which uni...
Summary: Hi, I have just inherited a Silicon Graphics O2 workstation. The previous owner had lost the root password and don't remember the password anymore. ...
Summary: Go to freashmeat.net or linux.tucows.com and pick up a "mini distribution", a distribution fits on a single floppy and boot off of that, mount your / ...
Summary: The root password is same with NIS server's passwod(solaris 7.0 NIS). I can't usr command "passwd root" to change the hp-ux client root password.Thank...
Summary: Hi, Our company just acquired another company, whose assets included several Sun Unix machines. Though the other company has provided a password file...
Summary: I got a old that came from another company and nobody knows root password. Server is SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 with DPT PM2022A/9X controller eith CM4000 t...
Summary: Hi, I've just restarted our old sales system after it crashed during our christmas shutdown (first crash in years). I logged in as root and was prompt...
Summary: I have a problem with my root login accout getting deactivated once several attempts to login are failed. Is there somewhere where it deactivates your...
Summary: I was "given" an IBM RS/6000 from work that was jsut taken out of service this summer On bootup it stalls looking for the Intranet that it was connect...
Summary: 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 di...
Summary: How to recover a lost or forgotten password Solaris. If you have lost or forgotten the root password on your Sun Sparc system here are some instructio...
Summary: This is a common question im sure... I bought a RS/6000 Model 240. Aix 4.3.3 loaded. No root password was supplied to me, but I do have the install me...
Summary: Interrupt the boot process at the 10 second delay point and do a "bo pri isl". When you are at the isl prompt you boot into single user mode by typing...
![[higher confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-red_x.gif)
- higher confidence, ![[lower confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-black_x.gif)
- lower confidence
