Lost Root Password on HP-UX10.20

[crystaln]

Hello. The old SA left taking the root password with him and now noone knows it. I have tried the crack program to try to crack the password, but it did not work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

 

[Guest_imported]

I assume you can't log in??? The system comes up but there is no access?
Don't know if you are on a server, workstation, web console, console, ???

You must boot to single user mode:
/sbin/shutdown -y 0 should do it for a 10.x

or you can completely power down and upon re-boot press any key, press

 

[bluehkg]

Go to the console, reboot your HP-UX box to single user mode, then change root password. That's it.

1. shutdown -r -y 0 (or simply reboot) ;shutdown and reboot
2. Intercept AUTOBOOT by pressing space bar
3. bo pri isl ; I assume you are booting primary boot path
4. hpux -is ; simple user mode
5. passwd root ; change root password

And you have your root password changed. So never let any stranger approach your console.

 

[bluehkg]

Sorry. Typo. "Single User Mode"!!!!

 

[AndyBo]

This might be a stupid question, but don't you have to log in as root in the first place to run [tt]shutdown[/tt] or [tt]reboot[/tt]?

 

[bluehkg]

Andy,

<grin> Yes, you're right. Thanks for correcting me. So step 1 should be hardboot your machine instead of &quot;shutdown -r -y 0&quot;.

 

[crystaln]

Thanks for the input. It is a server, running an oracle database. Don't really want to just hard boot it. I started snooping around under a user name and noticed a .rhosts file. called the SA for that box and got in. I should have looked for that first.

 

[AndyBo]

Yay! Security hole to the rescue! Now that you've got the root password changed, you are going to remove that .rhosts file, aren't you? And make sure /etc/hosts.equiv doesn't have any entries?

Glad you're back in, and sorry for getting all paranoid...

 

[crystaln]

Yeah, removed those as soon as I got in. Thanks for the input!! [sig][/sig]