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Old 05-14-2005
Boot in Single-Mode

Hi All,
I have AIX 5.1 & I forgot the root password. I find out the solution is to boot in single-mode and remove the root password from the /etc/passwd file. My question is how to boot in single-mode? Also is there any password required when booting in this mode?
 
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vino-passwd(1)							   User Commands						    vino-passwd(1)

NAME
vino-passwd - change vino login password SYNOPSIS
vino-passwd [--help] [--version] DESCRIPTION
vino-passwd is a command line tool to change the vino login password. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options for the command vino-passwd is included below. -?, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-remote-desktop | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
vino-server(1), vino-preferences(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 15 Aug 2008 vino-passwd(1)