Re: root password

[Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl>]

boot the rescue image from floppy or tftp and then edit the shadow 
and/or passwd file. (e.g. add user with uid 0 with a plaintext password)
then reboot and logon with that account....

Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl>

Jianbo Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a second hand sparcstation 10 ( solaris 2.5.1). There is no CDROM
> driver. I don't know root password or any username. I use single user mode
> to recover root password, but still need password. Is there any way that I
> can get the root password? I cannot mount SCSI disk to modify shadow file.
> And I don't want to delete everything before I try solaris UNIX.
>
> I can creat solaris 8 software CDs as a file server in local network.
>
> I am not on mailing list, so please cc to me. Thanks!
>
> Regards!
>
> Jianbo


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