On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Mike Lake wrote:
> ... with regards to the Solaris Q on SLUG
> > There would have been a difference, actually.
> > The Solaris default install will not, AFAIK, let you login, even in single
> > user mode, without the root password.
>
> I was talked through over the phone by Jill how to get into an old Solaris
> TG Station machine here at the UTS on which they did not have the root password
> anymore. Stop-a at boot to get to a eeprom prompt. Boot from there using the
> CDROM and yes then you can mount the hard disk and edit the passwd file with
> ed (yes ED !). Thats what I was talked through ! :-)
That was the proceedure I {and others} detailed.
> > which bypasses the requirement to give the root password. I haven't been
> > able to find _any_ way to make Solaris do the same - hence the requirement
> > for booting from the installation media.
>
> May be different for diff Solaris versions. Certainly with TG Station I
> could.
No, you couldn't. You said you needed to boot from the CDROM - you didn't
just boot to single user mode and be able to edit things like you can in
Linux {lilo: linux init=/bin/bash, for example}.
If someone can point out how to bypass SOlaris's requirement for the root
password to get into single user mode - OFF LIST - I'll admit publically I
didn't know what I was talking about in respect to recovering Solaris
passwords.
DaZZa
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