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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How do you reset username/password Post 302639485 by TanRuNomad on Saturday 12th of May 2012 12:03:28 AM
Old 05-12-2012
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Whoa, cool. Release 3 or 4? EB2OD or EB2OC, UNIX-RTR. Some later models are still out there running realtime telcom.

Try: init 1 at boot. s or S is the same thing, but allows you to use your current terminal as the single user console. Anyway. You automatically become root in runlevel 1 or S (s) which is single user mode. There was no sysadm user out of the box....

To answer your question - as root you can change your password or edit the /etc/passwd file to accomplish the same thing. I assume you boot from disk? ie., just power on and hit return at the first prompt. The boot sequence (what runlevel you wanted) was hard defaulted to unless you overrode it.
It's a 3b2 400 running system V release 2.0.4 and its booting off a HD. Can I still use your commands?

Last edited by TanRuNomad; 05-12-2012 at 02:47 AM..
 

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shexp(1)						      General Commands Manual							  shexp(1)

Name
       shexp - display password expiration information for a user

Syntax
       shexp [-q] [username]

Description
       The command is used to display a user's password expiration information.  The specified username, or logname if no username is supplied, is
       converted to a UID by searching through the passwd file.  The UID is then used to look up the user's entry in  the  Auth  Data  Base.   The
       password expiration information is then printed out in format.
       % shexp
       Expires Tue Dec	6 10:49:18 EST 1988
       If  the	password  has  already expired the word Expires will be replaced with the word Expired. If password expiration is disabled for the
       particular user in question the output of will be Never expires.

Options
       -q   Instead of displaying the expiration date and time in format, outputs it as three decimal numbers: the minimum password lifetime,  the
	    maximum password lifetime, and the password modification time.  All three numbers are displayed as they are found in the database.

Restrictions
       Only the super-user may obtain information about users with UIDs other than the real UID of the invoking process.

Diagnostics
       User not found in passwd data base.
       There is no entry in for the specified username.

       Cannot stat auth file.
       The database is missing (security features may not be enabled).

       Insufficient privilege.
       An insufficiently privileged user is asking for information about a username with a UID different then their current real-UID.

       An exit value of 0 indicates a successful operation, any other exit status indicates an error.

Files
See Also
       passwd(1), getauthuid(3), auth(5)
       Security Guide for Users

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