lost root password 1

[pavithra123]

Hi all,
I have solaris 5.5.1 and recently there was a power outage and the system was not properly shutdown. Later the system has rebooted itself and i get a CDE login but when i enter the root user name and password it does not allow it ( says incorrect login ) when i use another login i get into the system.

I tried the following steps to regain the root password

STOP-A
inserted the operating environment Installation CD 2.6
at ok promt I typed boot cdrom -s
but instead of automatically logging me in as root i still end up getting the CDE login prompt.

I am desparate any help would be greatlu appreciated.

prem

 

[Butterfly123]

U need to boot with CDROM to the single user level. Then u can mount the FS's on ur HD..

Regds,

- Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[Apricot]

ok> boot cdrom -s

#mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a (whatever is the boot disk)
#TERM=sun
#export TERM
#cp /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.orig
#vi /etc/shadow (comment out root password)
#cd /
#umount /a
#reboot

regards ph

 

[wtrepani]

Have you checked your device aliases to make sure that cdrom didn't somehow get aliases to your disk?

Will

 

[pavithra123]

thanks guys I fixed the problem.