topic Re: Root password change ! in Operating System - HP-UX

Root password change !

titu — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:03 GMT

Hi all ,

when I am trying to change the root password and going in to single user mode getting this error message :

INIT:overriding with default level with 's'

please help on this.

Thanks in advance

titu

Re: Root password change !

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:37 GMT

Shalom

bo
Y on the interact question:
hpux -is

passwd

Change it.

SEP

Re: Root password change !

titu — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:26 GMT

When i am trying to boot in single user mode using this option

# hpux -is

after sometime during boot process it give me this message:

INIT:overriding with default level with 's'

Re: Root password change !

Ganesan R — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:04:03 GMT

Hi,

It is not error message. It is information only. You can go ahead and change the password after booting into single user mode.

Re: Root password change !

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:16:28 GMT

Shalom again,

You are in single user mode.

Run the passwd command.

Done.

SEP

Re: Root password change !

Mel Burslan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:22:42 GMT

Look at the first line of your /etc/inittab file. You will see something like this:

init:3:initdefault:

when you see the message "overriding with default level with 's'", it is basically telling you that "you might be expecting to go to run-level 3 but instead I am going into run-level 's' as you requested (s=single user).

So, you are good to go. Even after booting into the single user mode, you are getting asked password, you might be out of luck and have to restore the OS to gain root access, short of trying third party tools.

Good luck.