Good afternoon All. Many thanks to those who replied and sorry a summary has taken so long. The original problem was: >We have a Solaris 8 sparc box with no CD/DVD drive. The root password is >unknown. We also have no functional Jumpstart servers available. > >Is there any way, short of installing a CD drive, of accessing the root >password/etc/shadow to get into the system? > >Any suggestions gratefully received! A summary of responses: 1. Use a JumpStart server to boot from the network 2. Install a SCSI CDROM/HDD 3. Use a boot server It was unfortunate that none of these options were available at the time. We solved the problem by creating a new JS server and re-installing the operating system, a somewhat drastic solution. However as luck would have it the owner on the box was planning a re-install anyway so we saved them the trouble. Once again many thanks to those who responded. Best regards Greg Hitchcock _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on your mobile. http://www.msn.txt4content.com/ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jan 29 11:36:33 2007
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