Solaris ROOT recovery

[rmmagow]

I have two old Sparc Solaris machines I'm trying to rescue, one with Sol8 one with 10. Neither has been run for a long time. I have local access to the machines as well as the install CDs. Is there some way to reset the root PW without doing a full re-install?
Thanks Much.

 

[linnorm]

Since you've got the install CDs it won't be too hard.

First boot the system from the install CD.
Then mount the root partition to /a.
Finally, edit /a/etc/shadow and remove the password hash.
Reboot and you should be able to login with no root password.
Make sure to change the password once you log in!

 

[bluedragon2]

There is a FAQ in this forum with the procedures

[Blue]Blue[/Blue] [Dragon]

If I wasn't Blue, I would just be a Dragon...

 

[tarn]

For the Solaris10 box you could always check for the existance of the telnet bug and see if you can get in that way 'telnet -l "-froot" <hostname>' then change the password. (be sure to harden with the fix "install ssh and disable telnet" after).

If not use the standard boot CDRom process.

Good Luck.