I'm new to solaris but am a certified systems administrator. I was recently brought the task of repairing a sunblade150 and was completely willing to take on this task without knowing the history behind this system. Apparently some slick S.O.B. from ebay bought this system, took the Solaris 9 installation disk and password protected root then sent it back saying he doesnt want it because its password protected. Ive been reading around and understand how to get to the OK prompt and use "boot -s cdrom" but everytime i try this i get nowhere but a password prompt. Ive seen that i can reset the root password with the install disk using the passwd command but this guy stole our disk (because about a year ago this OS was worth a lot of money) So i went to sun and downloaded the free solaris 10 and was planning on just reinstalling 10 because i need nothing off this hard disk, but im still confronted with a password prompt before i can continue to even try to install this OS. My only thought right now would be to install the HD as slave on a different computer and delete all partitions. (because i cant delete the partitions as is) But I'm not sure if this is the right answer. Does anyone have any other solutions out there?
Reset the programmable read only memory with no results. I then installed a new cdrom to see if maybe it wasnt reading correctly and continuing to boot from the hard disk, no luck. So i removed the hard disk and wiped it completely. Now i get an error message after using command "boot cdrom" of:
I then checked the solaris 10 installation disk i downloaded for the proper files on another machine and everything seems to be there and burned properly.
using command probe-ide it says the cd-rom is recognized as Device 1 (hard disk is Device 0)
do i need to format prior to inserting any of the installation disks?
What am i doing wrong here?
I now have the proper service manual and went through every diagnostics i could and everything has passed. Thanks for that link!
i think i may have found a problem,
using command
devalias
i found cdrom and cdrom1 both use the same location of
/pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@1,0:f
but i cant seem to find the command to change it any help would be greatly appreciated
show-disks from the OK prompt is pretty useful for this, it'll list most of the bootable disks on your system and the paths to them.
Alternatively, do a reset (or reset-all depending on the PROM version, whatever works) then probe-scsi-all. Do NOT run the probe without doing the reset, sun boxen are not all that good at handling a probe when there's junk in memory.
Hello forum members,
Please help me to recover the root password. I have had difficulties working with Solaris 11.
The run-level equivalents single-user in Solaris 10, I can mount disk in one partition and edit files shadow/passwd.
For example:
{0} ok boot cdrom -s
# mount... (4 Replies)
Hello Friends
I was running Solaris 11.3 x86.
Below is my configuration to set password Constraints.
more /etc/default/passwd
MAXWEEKS=4
MINWEEKS=1
WARNWEEKS=1
PASSLENGTH=8
NAMECHECK=YES
HISTORY=4
MINDIFF=3
MINALPHA=2 (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have the strangest issue... might be a huge oversight.. who knows!! :)
I am trying to configure a user to use sudo with no password, here is my sudoers configuration file
root@isha:~# egrep -v "^$|^#" /etc/sudoers
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL... (5 Replies)
Hello, I have a doubt about the accounts.
With a "grep" to file "shadow" get the accounts have no password:
The output is:
However, if I do a "su <bin, sys, etc>" request password.
What is the true state of accounts?
The file "shadow" are as follows:
I... (4 Replies)
hi all
I need to add a user "abcd" and set the password same as the user id. But Solaris 8 is not allowing me to do it, is there any way we can force the password to be same as the user id.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
bash-3.00# cat /etc/release
... (9 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)
In Solaris 9, when I built users, there was an option for No Password -- Setuid Only. Now that I'm using Solaris 10, I no longer can find that option.
Is there an equivalent option of No Password --Setuid Only in Solaris 10?
Thanks,
LeonD (1 Reply)
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)
Hello all!!!
We just inherited a sun 220r from another department. The Department doesn't exist any more and we have no way of getting the login password or any account information. The 220r has solaris 2.8 on it and the only version that I have on disk is 2.6.
Question 1: Can I use 2.6 on... (6 Replies)