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Operating Systems Solaris Change Expired root Password Post 302920460 by Corona688 on Thursday 9th of October 2014 01:51:45 PM

10-09-2014

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Wrongway

Thanks for responding Corona, the control-d does get to a shell. Can they (the techs) enter the command:

Code:

# passwd root

allow them to reset the expired password?

Thanks again.

Keep in mind I'm working from my experience with Linux. The situation seems almost identical, right down to the 'root password for maintenance' prompt, but beneath the skin it might not be quite what I think.

Still, the system is up in a very minimal fashion at this point. No services whatsoever, and it hasn't mounted any disks except your root filesystem, and probably read-only at that. Since the password hash is kept in a file in the root filesystem...

Try updating the password. If it works you're done. If it doesn't, you may have to mount -o remount,rw / or the Solaris equivalent then try again.

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vipw

vipw(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  vipw(1B)

NAME

       vipw - edit the password file

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/vipw

DESCRIPTION

       vipw edits the password file while setting the appropriate locks, and does any necessary processing after the password file is unlocked. If
       the password file is already being edited, then you will be told to try again later.  The vi(1) editor will be used unless the  environment
       variable VISUAL or EDITOR indicates an alternate editor.

       vipw performs a number of consistency checks on the password entry for root, and will not allow a password file with a "mangled" root entry
       to be installed.  It also checks the /etc/shells file to verify the login shell for root.

FILES

       /etc/ptmp

       /etc/shells

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1), vi(1), passwd(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Sep 1992 							  vipw(1B)

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