To Recover Root Password

This entry was posted in Unix and tagged Root Password Recover on June 17, 2012, by admin

To recover the root password in Solaris we have to follow the following steps.

1. Boot the system in Single user mode using cd

# ok boot cdrom -s

This command will take into single user mode.

2. Mount the root file system on /a , where /a is temporary mount point available when you boot from cdrom.

# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a

3. Set your terminal type, so we can use full editor.

# TERM=Sun;

# export=TERM

4. Next thing is to remove the encryted password from the /etc/shadow file.

# vi /a/etc/shadow

Remove the encrypted password, save and quit

# cd /

5. Unmount the temporary file system

# unmount /a

# init 6