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SCO Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) was a software company based in Santa Cruz, California which was best known for selling three UNIX variants for Intel x86.

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Old 04-21-2009
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Lost root Password - OpenServer 6

Hi All,

It seems that someone in my organization had changed the root password
on a SCO Openserver 6 box.

Apparently, there are no emergency boot disks. I think they were never
created because there is no floppy drive on the machine. I've tried to
use the Openserver 6 media installations disks as recovery but after a
certain point, I get an error that states "incorrect disk partioning has
been detected"

I tried downloading boot disks from the Caldera website (per instructions
at aplawrence) and the latest version I could find was 5.05.

At boot time, I can't change the password nor enter single user mode
without the root password.

Is there anything else I can do to reset the root password. I have
access to the machine by 1 user login and I can get to a shell. I can't
edit /etc/passwd or shadow files tho'.

Thanks in advance.
Georgio
 

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