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06-15-2010

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Reinstall Solaris?

Hey!

I'm new here, and excuse my complete lack of knowledge as a total newbie.

I've recently started a new job managing a nightclub, and we have 3 sun terminals installed that customers are able to use in the lounge area. However, we can't seem to log onto them as the old tech guy left on bad terms and refuses to tell us the root password for the server or any passwords that are able to log onto the terminals themselves.

I've tried resetting the password using all the tips I've found from Google but no such luck!!

Is it possible to reinstall solaris on the server without affecting the terminals or the connection? Would this fix all the problems? Or would the terminals not work as it needs a special sun application installed on the server?

Basically, if I reinstalled solaris on the server, would the terminals connect like they were before? Without installing anything else on the server?

Hope this makes sense?? I'm completely lost here!

Thanks in advance!

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securetty

SECURETTY(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						      SECURETTY(5)

NAME

       securetty - file which lists terminals from which root can log in

DESCRIPTION

       The file /etc/securetty contains the names of terminals (one per line, without leading /dev/) which are considered secure for the transmis-
       sion of certain authentication tokens.

       It is used by (some versions of) login(1) to restrict the terminals on which root is allowed to login.  See login.defs(5) if  you  use  the
       shadow suite.

       On  PAM	enabled  systems,  it  is  used  for  the  same purpose by pam_securetty(8) to restrict the terminals on which empty passwords are
       accepted.

FILES

       /etc/securetty

SEE ALSO

       login(1), login.defs(5), pam_securetty(8)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and  the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2015-03-29							      SECURETTY(5)

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