HP-UX

I am having some trouble with a system on my ship. A person created an account to do some things. The problem is is that he doesn't have the correct permission settings to do what he wants to do. That's fine I can fix that. But when I try to logon as Root it says that the password is incorrect. We have even changed the password and it still says that we can't logon using the password that we give it. I just wanted to know if anybody seen a problem like this before or any advice on what I could do to correct the problem so we cna get this straightened out. Thanks

How are you logging in? Have you tried su-ing to root or logging in from the console? You can always boot into single user mode and try to figure out what is wrong.

How did you change the root password if you couldn't login as root? Does that mean su is working? Or did you remotely login?
Check your password file and make sure the root account entry hasn't been messed up in some way, or is part of NIS.
Make sure critical filesystems aren't full.

I'm new to Unix so I don't know what su-ing is. I think we changed to root password from secman or the administrator. I tried to switch to root via X-term but it says the password is wrong. We just reloaded the system a few days ago and I havn't heard anything about it yet. Is there a special way we have to setup the root password? Like capitalization, numbers, etc.?

You can't change the root password, without knowing the root password in the first place. It prompts you for the old one before you can put in the new one.

Seems like you'll have to boot into single user mode as TioTony stated before ...
Interrupt the boot process by pressing a key, then reply y to the question Interact with IPL (Y/N) ? and finally at the ISL prompt issue this: hpux -is

That should bring you a root prompt without password

But You can't reboot your box if you don't have the right to do so ...
... cold power cut is a bad idea but if'you're lucky