Archive for April 11th, 2008
Reset Root Password on Solaris
Friday, April 11th, 2008In order to reset root password on Solaris box, you would need to do the following :
- Go to OK Prompt by:
- Once you got the OK prompt, boot into single user mode:
- Mount the root directory, On a typical system, it’s probably c0t0d0s0 or c0t0d0s1:
- Make a copy of /etc/shadow.
- Edit /etc/shadow file
- Delete the password of the root user (Leave the second field empty, dont change anything else):
- Reboot the box
- Login to root account with no password.
<stop> + <a>
or
# init 0
OK> boot cdrom -s
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 /
# cp /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.backupcopy
# vi /etc/shadow
Your /etc/shadow should look like this:
root:<password>::877667
root:<password>::877667
edit to
root:::877667
