First of all, i beg your pardon for my english.
i lost the root-password of my system SUN V 440.
I know there's a recovery procedure to permit to get again the password, but 
i don't know how.
Can somebody help me?
Thank u all.
Marco. 

Marco wrote:
> First of all, i beg your pardon for my english.
> i lost the root-password of my system SUN V 440.
> I know there's a recovery procedure to permit to get again the password, but 
> i don't know how.
> Can somebody help me?
> Thank u all.
> Marco. 
> 
> 
You cant easily recover it - the only way would be a brute force approach.

But you can easily reset the password if you have console access. Boot 
from a CD,

mkdir /tmp/foo
mount /dev/dsk/old_root_partition /tmp/foo
vi /tmp/foo/etc/shadow

clear the password and reboot.

Do a Google on it. There will be plenty of places with this information.

-- 
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Dude try dis one man ....
may be it will work ....
if so then u hav a ball man




ok >  boot cdrom -s
mount the root partittion on say a

Edit the passwd file, /a/etc/shadow (or perhaps in older versions,
/etc/passwd) and remove the encrypted password entry for root.

then reboot the server in single uwer mode as this will not hav a
password.
then from the prompt change the root password ,then you hav the server
in you hand bro.

happy crakin broooooooo


Dave (from the UK) wrote:
> Marco wrote:
> > First of all, i beg your pardon for my english.
> > i lost the root-password of my system SUN V 440.
> > I know there's a recovery procedure to permit to get again the password, but
> > i don't know how.
> > Can somebody help me?
> > Thank u all.
> > Marco.
> >
> >
> You cant easily recover it - the only way would be a brute force approach.
>
> But you can easily reset the password if you have console access. Boot
> from a CD,
>
> mkdir /tmp/foo
> mount /dev/dsk/old_root_partition /tmp/foo
> vi /tmp/foo/etc/shadow
>
> clear the password and reboot.
>
> Do a Google on it. There will be plenty of places with this information.
>
> --
> Dave (from the UK)
>
> Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
> It is always of the form: month-year@southminster-branch-line.org.uk
> Hitting reply will work for a few months only - later set it manually.
> 
> http://witm.sourceforge.net/ (Web based Mathematica front end)