So, I have an interesting problem. The root password on one of our Sun x4500 machines was changed and never communicated. Now, nobody knows what it is. I have physical access to the machine, but no Solaris installation disc. Is there any way to reset the password, this way?
|
feedback
|
|
Any linux/bsd distribution which can mount your drive filesystem should have the same capability. A FreeBSD liveCD would likely be your best candidate in the absence of the Solaris media. (BSDs support UFS.) Good luck! | |||
|
feedback
|
|
Here is a step-by-step guide to resetting the root password on Solaris 10, it requires you have the Solaris 10 installation disc, and physical access to the machine though. | |||||||
feedback
|
|
The one time I've had to do this without physical or console access, I managed to find a privilege escalation exploit that applied to my OS and patchlevel and got a root shell that way. Might be a long-shot, but otherwise I'd take a look at http://www.sysresccd.org/, since it appears to support ufs. | |||
|
feedback
|
|
You can boot selecting the single user mode in GRUB and then proceding to reset the root password. | |||
|
feedback
|
|
Use the OpenSolaris Live CD: http://www.opensolaris.com/ Boot the Live CD and mount your partition...then clear out the password in the shadow file. This will work if you're using UFS or ZFS root. | |||
|
feedback
|
