topic Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i in Operating System - HP-UX

Root passwd recovery - 11i

Jeremy Loukinas — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:45:05 GMT

I am looking for a real good article or how to on how to recover a root passwd. I know you boot of the cd etc.. but I am looking for an exact procedure if anyone has one.

OS = hpux 11i ( trusted system )

Thanks
Jeremy Loukinas

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Pete Randall — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:46:14 GMT

Assuming it's HP-UX, boot the machine, interrupt the boot process (when the message saying you have 10 seconds to do so comes up), enter hpux -is at the ISL prompt. You'll be logged in as root once you come up in single user mode. Use the passwd command to change the passwd, then either reboot or enter "init 3" to get to multi user mode.

Pete

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Jeremy Loukinas — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:51:43 GMT

Will reseting the passwd unlock the account?

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Pete Randall — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:55:03 GMT

Jeremy,

Is this a trusted system?

Pete

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:57:03 GMT

Hi,

Resetting the password will not unlock and account. You will need to run

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

Will enable the account.

-Sri

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Jeremy Loukinas — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:26:39 GMT

Yes it is trusted.

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Pete Randall — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:33:50 GMT

The Sri already gave you the definitive answer in your other thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf71db941255cd71190080090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:39:42 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

As I indicated in the other thread, there is an option for you to enable "root password required on single user mode" feature if your system is trusted. If that is the case, then it will prompt you for root's password when you get into single user mode. You will need to boot the system from CD which is little bit tedious (because you need to remember quite a bit syntax) process. Please let us know if it is the case and we will post the solution.

-Sri

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

unixadmin_1 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:39:05 GMT

How do i access and run the below command if i am unable to login with root...i think there is other process to enable root through run prompt...please let me know...

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

Re: Root passwd recovery - 11i

Torsten. — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:56:39 GMT

@unixadmin:

Please don't ask "metoo" questions - open your own thread.

If you cannot logon as root, you need to bring down the server and restart to single user.