10-14-2008
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1. Solaris
I need to recover root password on a test server (E 10k) running solaris 9. Can someone please tell me how to do this? (1 Reply)
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2. Solaris
Dear All,
I have lost my data backup server's root password, just have a normal login username and password ..but i need to get back my root passwd....any1 can help me out plz :confused: (7 Replies)
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Hi guys,
we have "forget" the root password for 1 of our AIX machines,
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Dears,
We have Oracle Database installed on AIX Version 5.3 and we have to take action urgently but must by root user but unfortunately we lost password.
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5. Solaris
How can I recover root password :wall:
1) I am running Solaris 10 (X86) through VMware for practicing.
2) I was practicing root password recovery and deleted the password in /etc/shadow file.
3) Neither cant login the to the CLI nor Console
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6. Red Hat
Hello forum members,
Please help me to recover the root password. i can login with the user in redhat linux but i forget root password. so pleas help me to recover.
advance thanks
siva. (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
We forgot the root password on SuSE version 10 server. Since I didn't have SuSE DVD, I started the server using Redhat. I updated /etc/shadow and removed the root password.
I then started the server and I still can't login using root. Any idea?
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
we have NCR 3455 system from long time as attached all information for server (images) , so we need your help to assist us to get root password which lost it , really we appreciate your efforts if you can send us the procedure for resting the administrator (root) password which this server... (0 Replies)
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9. Solaris
Hello forum members,
Please help me to recover the root password. I have had difficulties working with Solaris 11.
The run-level equivalents single-user in Solaris 10, I can mount disk in one partition and edit files shadow/passwd.
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
dialups
dialups(4) File Formats dialups(4)
NAME
dialups - list of terminal devices requiring a dial-up password
SYNOPSIS
/etc/dialups
DESCRIPTION
dialups is an ASCII file which contains a list of terminal devices that require a dial-up password. A dial-up password is an additional
password required of users who access the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The correct password must be entered before the user
is granted access to the computer. The set of ports that require a dial-up password are listed in the dialups file.
Each entry in the dialups file is a single line of the form:
terminal-device
where
terminal-device The full path name of the terminal device that will require a dial-up password for users accessing the computer
through a modem or dial-up port.
The dialups file should be owned by the root user and the root group. The file should have read and write permissions for the owner (root)
only.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample dialups file.
Here is a sample dialups file:
/dev/term/a
/dev/term/b
/dev/term/c
FILES
/etc/d_passwd dial-up password file
/etc/dialups list of dial-up ports requiring dial-up passwords
SEE ALSO
d_passwd(4)
SunOS 5.10 4 May 1994 dialups(4)