Summary: I currently came across a Solaris System which was donated by a local company and I have managed to recover a Solaris Installation Disk. Is there any...
Summary: On 1 solaris 8 system I have I am unable to reset a anyones password as root. When I enter passwd userid I get a password prompt. Form trying various ...
Summary: I have a Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz) with SunOS Release 5.8 running. I don't have a either CD-ROM installed or do I know the root password. I...
Summary: i have been given a solaris machine(ultra 5)running solaris version 8. But I dont know the root password and the previous owner of the machine does no...
Summary: I just received a used sun Sparc Ultra-5 workstation and when I try to boot from the cdrom in the firmware it asks me for a firmware password which I ...
Summary: I am trying to reset the root password of a Solaris 7 box using a Solaris 9 boot disk. I have booted in single user mode. I am trying to mount the dis...
Summary: Using a solaris 8 sun box. Booted into single user mode off of a solaris CD and manually changed our shadow file to show root as having no password. W...
Summary: Help! My old sparc 5 station died and I bought a new (used) one on Ebay. it is working fine but I do not have any user's password, nore root's passwor...
Summary: Does anyone know how to reset root password on Ultra 5 Sparc machine? I need to either reset it or reinstall the whole thing. Now I can't even reinsta...
Summary: I have 2 SUN Netra T1's. I have the root password for one machine(MC1) but do not have any passwords for the second machine(MC2).Here are the configur...
Summary: 1) At the OK Prompt type banner, and jot down Ethernet address and hostid# Ethernet address will be 8 0 20 nn nn nn Hostid will be 80nnnnnn In st...
Summary: You could try to use a "here document". passwd public_login << EOF newpassword newpassword EOF If you could live with the existing account, you could ...
Summary: I got a Sparc 5 station in a computer give away, my only problem is: I don't have a login and password to access it. I have tried to install Solaris 8...
Summary: I am running Solaris 2.6. I have a problem maybe other admins might have seen. root can only change roots password from the command line using the pas...
Summary: OK, before everyone jumps all over me and points me to one of the other posts on this topic... this is different. I have a tadpole sparc laptop that w...
Summary: I have a SUN Ultra 5 with Solaris 8 but I don´t have the root password. I have booted the station with the option "boot cdrom -s" with the Solaris 8 ...
Summary: Hi, As usual, a solitary Sun box has reared its ugly head, and the only person who knew the root password left aeons ago... So, I tried following the ...
Summary: I have sucssesfullyinstalled Solaris 8 for intel. In installation I gave root password, but in starting up it wont take that password, is there any wa...
Summary: Dear ALL: I encounter a strange problem. when I have install solaris 8 on E450 system,system cannot auto boot, I must type boot disk at ok> prompt,fol...
Summary: I purchased a Sun Sparc5 server running SunOs 5.5.1, the company I purchased from does not know this information and the unit does not have a cd rom ...
Summary: Hi, I have a client who wishes to have password aging disabled on one of our sun boxes(development). I have searched everywhere on how to accomplish ...
Summary: Hello All, Does anyone know if NIS+ allows password locking after several invalid tryies?? I have the /etc/default/login set to 3 tries, but it's n...
Summary: when I try to change root password as root using "passwd root" command, the system asks me for root password, when I type the existing password I used...
Summary: you need a boot cd. the way to reset the root password is well documented in many FAQs once you have that. (I think even Sun's Big admin site has the ...
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