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Amiel Tutolo
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Changing Root password

I have a D system running 11.0 in trusted mode. I need to change the root password because the DBA used to do the administration also and knows the password. I have tried looking every where but cannot find this one thing. Thanks for your help in advance.
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Kofi ARTHIABAH
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Re: Changing Root password

You will need to know the root password in order to change it.

login as root and then enter the command:

# passwd

follow the prompts.
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Amiel Tutolo
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Re: Changing Root password

Actually that ended up being a stupid question. I had tried the passwd command unsuccessfully but then after reading the reply I realized that when I converted to the trusted system it ignored the last letter of my long password. Once I left that off it changed quite easily. Thanks
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