On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Shannon Roddy wrote:

> Good luck....  I know of no easy way to reset the password on Solaris.  
> It is not as easy as most linux boxes.  "boot -s" doesn't cut it with 
> Solaris.

Do you have a Solaris CD?  If so, i would connect a pc/terminal program to
the serial port and get a console.  Then issue a stop-A (i think
ctrl-brk-A, depends on term program), put in the Solaris cd, then 
do 'boot cdrom -s'.

After that, fsck and mount the root fs (/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0?? i'm rusty on
solaris device names), vi etc/shadow and remove the root password.  
save, unmount, reboot, and you should be good.

> Yes... Sun uses UFS.  In my opinion your best bet is what you say 
> here... get the hard drive and read using another Sun or PC.

I hate messing with hardware, so i'd try booting from cdrom first... JMHO 
of course.

ray
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Ray DeJean                                       http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist              AIX Administration, AIX Support
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