Have you solved your problem? If not, what is going wrong? If you can mount your last be and change /etc/shadow and > > > I tried this as u said change root "type=role" > to > > > "type=normal", well the change is happening in > the > > > old BE but the new BE is not accepting any, its > > > neither allowing the root to login nor it is > > > accepting any changes made to /etc/shadow > > 1) Mount your BE in write mode (try after mounting > > touch MountedBERoot/SomeFile; rm > MountedBE/SomeFile) > > 2) either "chroot MountedBERoot","chmod u+w > > /etc/shadow" and edit it > > either without chroot "chmod u+w > > MountedBERoot/etc/shadow", edit it, chmod it back. > > (chmod 0200 /etc/shadow) > > i'm trying it...
My fault... After this steps got "empty password is not allowed for root"... So after clearing root password you should reboot in single mode (in grub and add -s to kernel boot options) and login as root with empty password. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
