Breaking in to an HP-UX 9.0 system

[Marcia Ghering]

I do not have any of the passwords for an old workstation running HP-UX 9.0. I have escaped out of the boot process, selected option "b" and entered "bo pri IPL" to boot interactively. My prompt is now ISL>. I would like to bring the workstation up in single user mode. Does anyone know the correct "hpux" command while at the ISL prompt to bring the workstation up in single user mode so I can change the root password?
Thank you very much.

[Pete Randall]

Enter "hpux -is".


Pete

[Marcia Ghering]

Thank you Pete, but I already tried this.
I have tried:
hpux is
hpux ip
hpux -is
hpux -ip
hpux isl
hpux ipl
hpux -isl
hpux -ipl

When I do not use a "-" I get the following response:
Booting is
is: cannot open, or not executable
Exec failed: no such file or directory

When I use the "-" it hangs for a few seconds and comes back to the ISL> prompt.

Any other suggestions?

[Dave Olker]

Have you tried "hpux -i s" with a space between the "i" and the "s"?

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

Try ....hpux -is boot

-USA..

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Or after completion of booting process try
init s

-USA

[Marcia Ghering]

"hpux -is boot" did it! Thank you USA.