Noobie ROOT Question

[Roger Lavender]

I recently took on a HP K460 server. When I attempted to logon as 'root" the system prompted for a pssword and I entered it (it was good 3 days eariler). The system then responds that the password has expired - and enters the password change routine requesting the old password. I entered it and the system then responds - "Password cannot be changed. Reason: Password lifetime has passed. Login aborted due to no password."

How can I get past this problem to perform system maintenance?

[Darrell Allen]

Login on the console.

Darrell

[T G Manikandan]

I think you have a trusted system.
shutdown and reboot the system
interrupt the boot sequence
interact .....-->yes
ISL>hpux -is
When you get into single user mode mount your file systems
#mount -a
#/usr/lbin/tsconvert -r
to revert back to a non trusted system. Edit /etc/password to remove root's encrypted password.
#passwd
to change the root password
#/usr/lbin/tsconvert to return to a trusted system.
#reboot


Thanks