lost root password on HP B180

[James F. Heinz]

So I found an old thread which said to login as single user, then type "passwd root" to fix the problem, or to try using vi against the passwd file. Typing passwd root does not work, cannot execute. Typing sam does not work. I changed directory to /etc hoping to see which files are there but "ls" does not work. So I tried to use vi, vi was not found. It is not in /usr/bin or /usr/ucb. Ideas? Thx.

[DCE]

Are you in single user mode? If so, issue a mount -a command to mount /usr /opt and the rest of VG00. This should allow you access to the commands you need.

[melvyn burnard]

Well if you are in single user mode, /usr and others will not be mounted, hence the SAM/vi failures etc.
You need to do mount -a to mount the file systems, then these commands should be available.
I have also moved this thread to a more appropriate forum

[James F. Heinz]

Thanks for the ideas, folks. I fixed the issue by using/sbin/password root to change the password. BTW, I was in single user mode and I did try to mount a couple of FS w/o success. Thanks again.