root passwd

[himacs]

Hi Admins,

I want to change the root passwd of my node is B.11.23

I went single user mode and mounted /usr

passwd root
-but ended up with below error
passwd root
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libxti.so.1'.
Killed

Is ther any other method to change passwd?

We have to boot with OS cd?

suggest on this

regards
himacs

[himacs]

Hi Admins,

i changed the passwd using /sbin/passwd command

himacs

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Problem got solved ?

Suraj

[himacs]

Yes suraj,

I changed the passwd.Initially i was using /usr/bin/passwd command for the same.

Next i used /sbin/passwd command.its worked

Whats the difference between them.

I know root shell is /sbin/sh


regards
himacs

[OldSchool · Accepted solution]

the most obvious difference with commands in /sbin, such as "/sbin/passwd", is they don't rely on shared libraries to be available. the other password command does, which can be problematic in single user mode (as you've seen).

that's the same reason people are continually warned *not* to change the default shell on the root account.

There may be other differences as well. If so, I don't know them off the top of my head

[Gokul Chandola]

Hi,

Enjoy the celebration, that you have changed the root password.

I want to say thanks, because you have reply with Solution you found.

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

[Dennis Handly]

>I went single user mode and mounted /usr
>/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libxti.so.1'.

Hmm, dld.so is under /usr/lib/ and libxti.so.1 should also be there. Is that lib there after you got your system up?

[himacs]

Hi Denis,

Let me check again since the server is down(planned one :) )


regards
himacs

[himacs]

Hi denis ,

The libxti.so.1 available .

ll libxti*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 13 Mar 31 2008 libxti.so -> ./libxti.so.1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 54 Mar 31 2008 libxti.so.1 -> /opt/star-ncf-prod/ep_patch/usr/lib/hpux32/libxti.so.1


regards
himacs

[OldSchool]

Himacs:

"The libxti.so.1 available ...

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 54 Mar 31 2008 libxti.so.1 -> /opt/star-ncf-prod/ep_patch/usr/lib/hpux32/libxti.so.1"

Read what you looked at...it NOT in /usr/lib, that's a LINK to a file on /opt, so unless you mounted /opt as well, it won't find it.

[Dennis Handly]

If you list symlinks with -L, it will follow them and give the target properties. In your case it would indicate it wasn't found.

[midoone103]

if u wanna connect by using single user this the cmd : shutdown -y 0