i am forget a password

[Mousa55]

Hello

i am forget the root password of a server, how to me to return the password or change
plz help me i need this server.

thanks

[MarkSyder]

Go into single-user mode and reset the password.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Joël Techer]

yes effectively , mark syder is right.

The only thing you can do is to shutdown your machine and to boot in single user mode

for pa-risc :
At startup, interrupt the boot sequence enter to ipl
bo pri / interact with isl => y
hpux -is

once you have the prompt,
=> passwd root

for itanium
interrupt the boot sequence at startup.
go to the efi shell
cd fsX:\ (usually fs2:\)
cd efi/hpux
boot -is

Regards
Jean-Louis

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

If you have sudo installed and configured, or you have a .rhosts with root, or ssh with authorized_keys setup, you try to "break in" your system.

Robert-Jan

[Viswanadhan]

Hi Nejad,

If u have root permissions to other user, then login with it.

[MarkSyder]

I suspect what Viswanadhan is talking about is if you have another user with uid 0. If you have, please remove that user from the /etc/passwd file before an inexperienced sys admin does it for you and wipes your system clean.

Mark

[Juan M Leon]

I agree with Robert-Jan Goossens, if you have sudo access configured you can always sudo su - and become root user.

good luck