Root password change !

[titu]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom


bo
Y on the interact question:
hpux -is


passwd

Change it.

SEP

[titu]

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'

[Ganesan R · Accepted solution]

Hi,

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

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again,

You are in single user mode.

Run the passwd command.

Done.

SEP

[Mel Burslan]

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.