"Andrew W. Gaunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A fellow I work with inherited an HPUX machine and of course, nobody
> knows the root password. Does anyone know of a 'break in' procedure he
> can try?
If you *absolutely* don't have the root password:
(from my very old (possibly incorrect) notes...)
1: shut off the system
(no way to gracefully do this w/o the root password)
2: IIRC, while the system is starting up, if you hit ESC twice,
you'll interrupt the booting process.
3: At the boot_admin prompt type: boot pri isl
4: At the "isl" prompt type: hpux -is
If the previous admin configured the system in "trusted" mode, this
will *not* work, and you'll have to boot from the original media.
Regards,
--kevin
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