Re: Lost root password, what's next?

Posted by anonymous_coward on October 17, 2001 at 07:00:17:

In Reply to: Re: Lost root password, what's next? posted by Tony Lawrence on September 22, 2001 at 10:40:03:

: : Sydney, 21 September 2001

: : Greetings,

: : I've got/inherited three SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 servers with 'I don'k know the root password(s)!`
: : Don't have boot and/or root recovery diskettes. The only thing(s) I have is the original boot
: : disk and CD (plus the licenses). I can boot the systems with either the original boot
: : diskette, or with my own `generic` boot diskette (has vi, as I don't know to much about ed),
: : brek out from the install, mount /dev/root on /mnt. Howewer, these systems had been installed
: : with `Traditional security`, so the shadow password file in not in /etc. What can I do to
: : recover/create the root passwords?

:
: Follow the directions in the FAQ for lost root password

: FAQ

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