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Operating Systems HP-UX Bouncing Unix Servers Post 302068916 by buffoonix on Tuesday 21st of March 2006 06:14:06 PM

03-21-2006

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I agree to what Ralph said.
The HP ITRC is a phantastic forum.
Even if you have an HP software support contract
you often get quicker responses from fellow sysadmins whose main platform
is HP-UX, most of the times containing a solution or hints that at least will
help you further.
But back to your problem.
I am afraid I have no experience with HP workstations.
Btw, have you looked here for a manual of your workstation model?
It should at least drop a line how you can access maintenance mode.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...IndexId=179111
That's where you need to get in order to fix your locked root account.
Btw, a locked root account or lost root password is such a common issue
that I am convinced you will find a thread treating it in the afore mentioned
HP ITRC forum.
The ITRC also has a great knowledge base that you can query with regard
to you problem (but I fear this is only accessible to support contract holders).
If all else fails you should at least be able to boot from a Core OS CD
which starts up an ASCII menu from where you can enter a root shell.
I also don't know the Commercial Security Database.
Somewhere in it must be a field that has a lock set for your root account.
Maybe you had entered too many times a wrong password or similar?
But I am convinced that the lock flag can be removed,
mabe even by moving the whole DB out of place or by providing an interim
empty one.
Please search docs.hp.com for your case.
Most of the HP documents are downloadable.
E.g. here are some manpages that may be relevant to you
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/isl.1M.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/hpux.1M.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/boot.1M.html

If regained access to your workstation and if you have a streamer available
I would strongly advise you to create a disaster recovery tape
by the make_tape_recovery command.
This is part of the freely available Ignite utility.
Search HP site for download and documentation.
Creating an Ignite tape is as easy as issuing one short command.
After successful creation you have a bootable recovery medium
where you either could reinstall the whole OS within half an hour
or where you could access a root shell should your root disks get broken.
HTH

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urn-scheme

uri_urn(n)					    Tcl Uniform Resource Identifier Management						uri_urn(n)

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NAME

       uri_urn - URI utilities, URN scheme

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require uri::urn  ?1.1.2?

       uri::urn::quote url

       uri::urn::unquote url

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DESCRIPTION

       This  package  provides two commands to quote and unquote the disallowed characters for url using the urn scheme, registers the scheme with
       the package uri, and provides internal helpers which will be automatically used by the commands uri::split and uri::join of package uri	to
       handle urls using the urn scheme.

COMMANDS

       uri::urn::quote url
	      This command quotes the characters disallowed by the urn scheme (per RFC 2141 sec2.2) in the url and returns the modified url as its
	      result.

       uri::urn::unquote url
	      This commands performs the reverse of ::uri::urn::quote. It takes an urn url, removes the quoting from  all  disallowed  characters,
	      and returns the modified urls as its result.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This  document,	and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category uri of
       the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you  may  have  for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       rfc 2141, uri, url, urn

CATEGORY

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uri								       1.1.2								uri_urn(n)