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[williambishop]

Just inherited a HPUX boxen at work, but password is unknown. It is ver 10 I believe and I don't have the cd media, is there a way to replace the password. I know how to do it in solaris(boot cdrom single and edit the appropriate password file, but new to HP.

 

[gerudman]

Reboot the server is single user mode by doing the following :

1)Reboot
2)Interrupt boot process
3)Type "bo pri asl"
4)Then at the ISL> prompt, type "hpux -is"

When booted in single user mode change password with the passwd cmd. After that just type "reboot" and let it boot up normally.

Hope you fix it!

 

[williambishop]

Thanks, will try it this evening. I also noticed on the census that a large percentage of people like working with HP-UX vs. the aix and solaris, can you tell me why?

William.

 

[williambishop]

Worked great!!!! I will have to remember that in the future.