Attila Bukta, PhD
Home > Unix > Recover root password on Solaris

Recover root password on Solaris

June 8th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

Use the software cd 1 of 2 to recover root password:

?View Code BASH
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

boot cdrom -s from ok prompt
 
mkdir /tmp/a
 
mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/a
 
cd /tmp/a/etc
 
TERM=vt100; export TERM
 
vi shadow

Delete passwd entry (13 chars) in the line for root.

  1. No comments yet.
  1. No trackbacks yet.
You must be logged in to post a comment.