I think Solaris Sparc does not make a 2nd bootable partition (recovery partition) by default.
So you'll need to boot from a Solaris installation CD (usually the 1st CD in the package). Do not start the installation, but open a shell.
From there mount your disk device to /a
Then your crypted root password can be deleted or changed in /a/etc/shadow
You have to know (or guess) your disk device. Look it up before, on your alive system with
If it's like /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 then it is a physical disk, that you can mount when booted from CD.
If it's a Solaris volume manager disk then recovery might be more complicated; try the Oracle Web documentation.
If it's zfs then I have no experience...
Dear Forum savants,
I have a problem that I am not sure how to overcome. Two years ago I had
a friend build me computer with a linux os (red hat) for learning purposes. It happens to have an oracle server on it as well... Anyway , because of personal reasons, I lost complete interest in... (5 Replies)
i forgot my password on a HP-UX 9.xx machine. is there a possible way of changing it without knowing the root passwd?
I would do it with a boot disk and chroot but I dont have a boot disk available....
any ideas?
thanks!!
Paul Tittel (1 Reply)
Hello,
Is there a way to reset the "root" unix password, pretty much like you would do in linux by going into single user mode? :confused: :confused:
Thank you in advance. (5 Replies)
Bit of a strange problem I have never come across before..
I can log into the workstation going through the server as it is a trusted host but when I try and connect to the workstation through SSH or RSH directly it will not take the password, I changed the password when I logged in the machine... (5 Replies)
hi
i have a RHEL 4 and have forgot root passwd
tried to boot in by singel user and then changing the passwd but it's not letting me do that ......throwing some weird error as .......manipulation
i also tried to make a new user from CLI but even though it's not letting me in from that user as... (12 Replies)
hello friends,
I am currently using solaris 10.
I have lost the root password.
Can you please give me a step by step procedure on how to set the password again. (11 Replies)
Hello All,
I have several solaris boxes running Solaris 8. When changing root passwords on them, all will simply ask for the new root password to change and of course to re-type the new password. One of the systems however asks for the existing root password before it will display the new password... (8 Replies)
I have VPS openSUSE 12.2
I forgot MYSQL password root
when i run in CMD:
> mysql
Error Message Show :
>> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) (6 Replies)
i do not have root on a solairs 10 server , however i do have the root role, i was wondering if I can change the root password as a a role with the passwd command? I have not tried yet.
and do i have to use the # chgkey -p afterwards?
i need to patch is why i am asking.
thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: goya
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yppasswd
yppasswd(1) General Commands Manual yppasswd(1)NAME
yppasswd - change login password in Network Information System (NIS)
SYNOPSIS
[name]
Remarks
The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality remains the same; only the name has
changed.
DESCRIPTION
changes or installs a password associated with the login name in the Network Information System (NIS). The NIS password can be different
from the one on your own machine. If name is omitted, it defaults to the name returned by (see getlogin(3C)).
prompts for the old NIS password (even if it does not exist), then twice for the new one. The old password must be entered correctly for
the change to take effect. Checks occur to ensure that the new password meets the following construction requirements.
o Only the first eight characters are significant.
o A password can be as few as four characters long if it contains
o at least one special character or
o a mixture of numeric, uppercase and lowercase letters.
o A password can be as few as five characters long if it contains a mixture of
o uppercase and lowercase letters or
o numeric and either uppercase or lowercase letters.
o A password must contain at least six characters if it contains only monocase letters.
All these rules except the first are relaxed if you try three times to enter an unacceptable new password. You cannot, however, enter a
null password.
Only the owner of the name or the superuser can change a password.
The Network Information System password daemon, must be running on the master NIS password server to change NIS passwords. See yppass-
wdd(1M).
WARNINGS
The password update protocol passes the old and new passwords to the master NIS server at once. Thus, if the old NIS password is incor-
rect, no notification is given until the new NIS password is successfully entered.
The password construction rules are different from those of the HP-UX command (see passwd(1)).
The root user's password cannot be changed using or Therefore, root users must change their password in the files database and then recon-
struct the NIS maps using the command. For more information on how to use the command, see ypmake(1M).
User applications that call this routine must be linked with For example,
AUTHOR
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO id(1), passwd(1), su(1), yppasswdd(1M), getlogin(3C), yppasswd(3N), ypfiles(4).
yppasswd(1)