Solaris 8 Password?

[ninhovid]

Hi, i've installed Solaris 8 perfectly, with all of the cd's it asked me for...
documentation, additional software, etc....
but now, it is asking me for a password, i can choose to log in in CDE mode, Solaris 8 mode, etcetera... but i dont know which username and password it is asking me for!!!
i've tried with user=root pass=root password but it says "login failed, try again"

it will be the first time i'm going to log in... thanks in advance!!!

 

[blainepruitt]

Can't say that I have ever encountered that, but here are a few suggestions.

1. login with the root username, but when it asks for a password leave it blank, maybe the machine is having trouble writing and storing your password leaving it null.

2. try booting with a cdrom in single user mode. From there mount /dev/dsk/rootpartition to /a. cd into /etc and manually manipulate the password and shadow file as needed.

HTHs,
Blaine

 

[christos]

it must have asked you to enter the root pass during installation
try root and [enter] ie no password as you may have enterd past it during the install

 

[Butterfly123]

MAy be during installation, u might have hastily kept on taking the default installation parameters and pressing enter key, where u mighta entered a blank password!

Try using blank password at the root prompt..Otherwise, u need to go thru all the tedious procedure of booting with CDROM, and then mounting root file system, and then editing the password files, and then rebooting with disk..

Well, I must note that i never encountered such kinda situation in any of my solaris installations!!!!!!!!

All the best..

- Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[tarleton]

log in with root user name and leave the password blank

 

[dsticky]

Normally during installation if you did not enter any passwd for root you would not be prompted for a passwd. This is what you need to do. Follow this step. To correct the situation

1. enter solaris cdrom(dsk1of2)
2. if you are at the login prompt enter stop and a key at the same time.
3. run the command boot cdrom -s
4. mount the root dsk to mount point a ie, mount /dev/dsk/cXtXdXsX /a (where X means enter your controller, target, disk and slice numbers respectively. example c0t0d0s0
5 change directory to a ie cd /a
6 enter term variable ie TERM=sun that is if you terminal is a sun terminal. After this enter export TERM
7.change directory to /etc. ie cd /etc
8. run the editor command to edit the shadow file ie. vi shadow
9. delete the second field which normally has 13 character by runing the x command in vi.
10. after this field is deleted, enter your esc key
11. write the change and exit out of vi ie. :wq!
12. change directory to root ie cd /
13. unmount a ie umount a
14. reboot your machine or continue to default run level ie init 6 or init 3 or cntrl d keys
good luck