HPUX 11.0 Locked root account

[Jonathan Grymes]

How can I reset the root account?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Jonathan,

Logon the console and enable the root account.

# modprpw -k root

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Jonathan Grymes]

Im in single user mode.
The command modprpw is not found.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

If you are in single-user mode, do the following:

# mountall

This will mount all VG00 filesystems. Don't be concerned with the messages that other filesystems can't be mounted. That's to be expected since those VG's aren't active.

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

Now root is active again.

[Jonathan Grymes]

That worked! Thanks.