Solaris

Hi All,

My server is at maintanace mode and i dont have root password. how can i go back to SC prompt from here. Ctrl+d is not working to bypass the activity.

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Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):
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Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):

I don't know if this helps but from sc> you can do: start SP/console. Answer "yes" to the question and it will take you to the console. You may have to press Enter.

But maybe I don't understand your question exactly.

i took the help of hardware team.

Now i want to reset the root password from cdrom ( single user mode).

bacause of export "term variable" i am unble to edit shadow file.

i did below but it is working on the console

TERM=vt100
export TERM

could you please advice

on the assumption that you are able to see output on the screen and enter commands and that you mounted the hard drive on /a, just use sed to edit the /etc/shadow ... make sure you reset the permissions to the file correctly ...

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# ls -l /a/etc/shadow
-r-------- 1 root sys 412 Jul 14 00:04 /a/etc/shadow
# cp -p /a/etc/shadow /a/etc/shadow.tmp
# grep root /a/etc/shadow
root:htWkjhljh.oiuWq2$aQ/56n:1500::::::
# sed "s/root:[0-9a-zA-Z\*\$.\/]*:/root::/" /a/etc/shadow > /tmp/test
# cat /tmp/test
root::1500::::::
....
....
# cat /tmp/test > /a/etc/shadow
# cat /a/etc/shadow
# ls -l /a/etc/shadow

after everything is set, reboot the box and reset the root password ... run rm /etc/shadow.tmp once satisfied that there are no more password-related issues ...

Do you mean the secure console for the ILOM or ALOM? The dealt password is usually changeme if it was not changed.

I'm not sure that I understand your question, but,

Normally, on the serial management port connection, you can use

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#.

to toggle from the O/S serial interface back to the system controller (SC> prompt). From the SC> prompt you can toggle back to the O/S serial console with the command

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console

Is it the root password for the O/S or the root password for the ILOM that you don't have?

You can clear the O/S password by editing /etc/shadow after booting from cd.
You can change the ILOM password with a O/S command.

Please provide more information.

Also, do you know why the system is going into system maintenance mode??

What kind of server? A bit more information would be really helpfull!