passwd

[Ivan Altaparmakov_1]

Dear Sir or Madam

We expired following problem when we tryed to conver to trusted system on a
HP-UX 10.20 :
After convertion the system no longer recognized
tho root password sa a valid password .
We hope to recive advice for solving this problem .
We hav an instalation disk , but , unfortunately , have no another account with
root rights .
What we shel do ?

Yours Faitful
Ivan Altaparmakov

[Chris Anoruo_1]

Hi ivan,

Boot your system to single user mode through ISL prompt
then do a mount all and try changinging passwd from SAM of at the prompt.

I hope this will help you better that to reinstall.

[Fernando Santana]

Hi, I resolved the same problem without having to
unconvert from TCB nor going into single user mode.
Go into SAM, select the specific user root, modify security policies, password
format policies and set
the maximum password length to the length of your password or more. Remember
you could still rlogin as
root from another ".rhosts" trusted system.

If this doesn't let you "su -" or change the root's
password, go to another system and change that systems
root's password to something 8 characters or less. Copy
the encrypted password into the clipboard and on the
problematic system, paste this garble string into the
"u_pwd=PASTEHERE:\" field of /tcb/files/auth/r/root.
Now you can "su -" root and you can try changing the
passwd lentgh, if you haven't yet, to something larger
and finally change the roots password to what you originally had.


Good luck