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root lockout

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menace212

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I have a Sun Solaris 8.x operating system, but for some reason my root account has been locked out. How can I regain root access. Can do a hard reboot and attempt to reestablish a root password...Any idea's...I don't want to rebuild the box?
 
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Reboot with cdrom, mount hard drive, edit /etc/passwd

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