Forgotten SuperUser Passwd

[tham]

hi,

Is thera a way of recovering my old forgotten superuser password without changing it in the Single user mode ?


thanks in advance.

[Norman_21 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

The best way is always to create a user account with 0 UID which you can use to change the root passwd by su to it.
Another way is to ftp the /etc/passwd to another machine and then use the Crack utility which is availble at www.software.hp.com
Also, you have to install gcc. Download it from the same site. Other than that you'll have to reboot your system in a single user mode.

Hope this help.

[Norman_21]

here is the link to make it easier for you.

http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/

Hope this help.
Thanks and good luck

[Michael Tully]

The best way to get around having alternative methods for access to 'root' is to use 'sudo'
Having a second or subsequent account(s) with uid of '0' is seriously a bad idea.

You can get 'sudo' from here.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.6/

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

And i thought i was the only guy to be at work on a Sunday....

- ramd.