account disabled

[Gurumanickam]

hi team,

My root account has disabled, if i go from the single usermode it is asking for the old passwd. is there any other way to enable the root account without passwd?

[Ivan Krastev]

if you can login in single user mode as root use:
# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

to unlock root account.

regards,
ivan

[Rajeev Shukla · Accepted solution]

Try 2 things
1. Use /sbin/passwd to change the password (i hope it doesn't ask there)
2. Edit /tcb/files/auth/r/root file and replace the :u_pwd= field to look something like :u_pwd=:\
Then run the passwd command, it wont ask for old password then

[rariasn]

Hi Gurumanickam,

Use system console to login with root user and then change "root" password.

rgs,