topic Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password in Operating System - HP-UX

Forgotten,Lost, Password

Hal.Napper — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:15:03 GMT

The User Password has been lost.
How can I either,establish a new password without knowing the old one or diableing it altogether.
Hal.

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

Geoff Wild — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:59:44 GMT

As root, set a new password:

passwd user

You can not recover, unless you use third party tools like crack....

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

steven Burgess_2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:07:15 GMT

ho hum

if it's the root password, you will need to boot into single user mode !

follow the prompts and interupt, type 'y' to interact then hpux -is

when you hit the prompt

#mount -a
#/usr/lbin/tsconvert -r

this will bring you into " break me shake me" mode ! from then you can reset the root password with

passwd

otherwise you need to go to the protected entry in

/tcb/auth/files/r ( i think! , had a few beers at this point !)

vi the root entry and remove the password field

For a normal user you do be the same thing

HTH

Steve

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:34:38 GMT

Steve,

The beers didn't slow you down a bit.

Those instructions apply to trusted system and the root password is in a file called root.

Change this:

:u_pwd=hZUjWYS59I9OIvlS8JkUoW2k:\

to

:u_pwd=:\

Save it.

You are done.

No root password.

Lets be careful out there.

SEP

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

Hal.Napper — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:46:59 GMT

Thank's for the help but as a beginner the answers were just to technical.
Perhap's I should have added that I am unable to get the computer to boot.

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

Robert Binkhorst — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:52:16 GMT

Hi,

You said the answers were to technical, please try the following:
- Power on the machine
- When it says "press any key to interrupt the boot", press any key.
- Type "bo pri",
- type 'y' to interact
- now type "hpux -is"
- Wait for it to boot.
- Type "mount -a"
- type "passwd". This will prompt you for the new password. Enter it twice and done!
- Type "init 3"

That should do it!

Good luck,
Robert

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

Dave La Mar — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:34:29 GMT

Hal -
My first thought on your comments of "technical" was to advise you to contact your SA. Though that is basicly still true, we need input from you as to the circumstances and outputs from your boot problems.

Hang in there. The forums will get you up and running.

Regards,

dl

Re: Forgotten,Lost, Password

Hal.Napper — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:41:58 GMT

Dave:
Thank's for your your interest,and reply.
I was adle to boot the PC and enter by using the Safe Mode.From there I accessed the Users Account and disable the Passwords.
Thanks again .
HAL