Rich Payne writes:
|>
|> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
|>
|> > At 01:35 PM 10/20/2000 -0400, Rich Payne wrote:
|> >
|> > no i do not have the CD's. I don't remember if it has the keys
|> > either.....can't i boot it with a openBSD floppy and mount the FS then edit
|> > the passwd file my self?
|>
|> Ummmm...probably not. Definatly not if it has AIX4.x. 4.x has an LVM and
|> uses the JFS filesystem, I'm sure OpenBSD won't be able to handle that. If
|> it's 3.x then I don't know, I never worked with 3.x machines so I don't
|> know what the filesystem looks like (I know there was no LVM).
|>
|> --rdp
I really doubt *BSD knows anything about the AIX LVM or JFS (both of
which existed in AIX 3 btw). The AIX FAQ says the following about lost
root passwords:
1.138: I lost the root password, what should I do?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald E. Ramm)
Boot from boot diskettes, bootable tape, or bootable CD.
At the Installation/Maint menu select item 4, "Start a limited function
maintenance shell.
At the subsequent "#" prompt enter the command:
getrootfs hdiskN
(where "N" is replaced by the number of a disk on your system
that is in rootvg.)
That will run for about a minute or so and you get a # prompt back. At this
point you are logged in as root in single user mode.
Change to /etc/security and edit the passwd file. Delete the three lines
under root: password, update time (or whatever it's called), and
flags. Save the file.
Then at the prompt, give root a new password.
Shutdown/reboot in normal mode. Log in with new password.
So, the canconical answer seems to be "find some bootable media".
Sorry...
Dave
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