topic Re: root passwd in Operating System - HP-UX

root passwd

himacs — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:20:45 GMT

Hi Admins,

I want to change the root passwd of my node is B.11.23

I went single user mode and mounted /usr

passwd root
-but ended up with below error
passwd root
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libxti.so.1'.
Killed

Is ther any other method to change passwd?

We have to boot with OS cd?

suggest on this

regards
himacs

Re: root passwd

himacs — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:30:15 GMT

Hi Admins,

i changed the passwd using /sbin/passwd command

himacs

Re: root passwd

Suraj K Sankari — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:33:50 GMT

Hi,

Problem got solved ?

Suraj

Re: root passwd

himacs — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:38:46 GMT

Yes suraj,

I changed the passwd.Initially i was using /usr/bin/passwd command for the same.

Next i used /sbin/passwd command.its worked

Whats the difference between them.

I know root shell is /sbin/sh

regards
himacs

Re: root passwd

OldSchool — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:45:57 GMT

the most obvious difference with commands in /sbin, such as "/sbin/passwd", is they don't rely on shared libraries to be available. the other password command does, which can be problematic in single user mode (as you've seen).

that's the same reason people are continually warned *not* to change the default shell on the root account.

There may be other differences as well. If so, I don't know them off the top of my head

Re: root passwd

Gokul Chandola — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:16:50 GMT

Hi,

Enjoy the celebration, that you have changed the root password.

I want to say thanks, because you have reply with Solution you found.

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

Re: root passwd

Dennis Handly — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:43:12 GMT

>I went single user mode and mounted /usr
>/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libxti.so.1'.

Hmm, dld.so is under /usr/lib/ and libxti.so.1 should also be there. Is that lib there after you got your system up?

Re: root passwd

himacs — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:08:53 GMT

Hi Denis,

Let me check again since the server is down(planned one :) )

regards
himacs

Re: root passwd

himacs — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:53:59 GMT

Hi denis ,

The libxti.so.1 available .

ll libxti*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 13 Mar 31 2008 libxti.so -> ./libxti.so.1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 54 Mar 31 2008 libxti.so.1 -> /opt/star-ncf-prod/ep_patch/usr/lib/hpux32/libxti.so.1

regards
himacs

Re: root passwd

OldSchool — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:56:27 GMT

Himacs:

"The libxti.so.1 available ...

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 54 Mar 31 2008 libxti.so.1 -> /opt/star-ncf-prod/ep_patch/usr/lib/hpux32/libxti.so.1"

Read what you looked at...it NOT in /usr/lib, that's a LINK to a file on /opt, so unless you mounted /opt as well, it won't find it.

Re: root passwd

Dennis Handly — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:19:41 GMT

If you list symlinks with -L, it will follow them and give the target properties. In your case it would indicate it wasn't found.

Re: root passwd

midoone103 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:59:08 GMT

if u wanna connect by using single user this the cmd : shutdown -y 0