SUMMARY: lost root password

From: Jason L. Harrell (jason@jsa.com)
Date: Fri Sep 05 1997 - 13:21:21 CDT


Thanks,

Daniel Kluge <danielk@tibco.com>,
thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Susan Thielen),
Tawanda Queen <trq96@acs.org>
Seth Rothenberg <SROTHENB@montefiore.org
Tom E Smith <tesmit1@tessa.monsanto.com>

And to any and everyone who contributed to the solution. I didn't
expect such a large, quick response! Wow! Anyway, what I ended up
doing was different than all your suggestions but your suggestions
definately got me thinking on the right track! Here's what I did:

1) boot cdrom -s
2) cd /
3) mount /dev/dsk/c$t$d$s$
4) if err mesg fsck /dev/dsk/c$t$d$s$
5) else cd /a/etc
6) set TERM variable to sun
7) vi .sysIDtool.state
8) change 1 to 0 in front of comment regarding prompting for root
password
9) touch .UNCONFIGURE
10) cd /
11) umount /a
12) rebooted!!!

This way so safe and solved the problem. If anyone can use this feel
more than welcome to ;)

Well, thanks again guys! I'll have plenty more questions for you.

Jason

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Jason L. Harrell UNIX System Administrator JSA 11861 Westline Dr. St. Louis, MO 63146 jason@jsa.com



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