root locked out

[mvr]

I coverted to the trusted system, but now all of my accounts (including root). How do I handle this (beside rebooting in to single user mode) ?

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

rebooting to single user mode is th only way I know of. Sorry

[Ian Kidd_1]

Single-user mode if you don't have a product like sudo or sfu. Otherwise you might be able to issue a sudo modprdw -k root (or launch sam with sudo).

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Miro,

Now you see why it's always recommended to have at least 2 root sessions running when converting. One to test & one to resolve if root account gets locked out.

Do you have another server that you can rlogin (w/o PW) from?

If you have another trusted system, you might also try to ftp the /tcb/files/auth/r/root entry from that system to this one - then use that system's root PW.

But I think there's a good likelihood that you'll be having to get to single-user
mode to properly resolve this.

Rgds,
Jeff

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Do u ahve atleast one session of root still open if so then convert it back and then reactivate. In case no then all you can do is to boot in single user mode.


Manoj Srivastava

[Ken Hubnik_2]

If you have a root session open all you have to do is run this command.
/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

[Ken Hubnik_2]

Another way is if you have ITO running you can run sam on that server to reset,

[mvr]

Thank you all .... I was lucky and I found one session opened on the linux box, as a root.
I got it working with /usr/lbin/modprpw -V

GREAT LESON .....

Thank you again :)

Miro

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