root password forgotten

[YOGESH S. GAIKWAD]

someone has changed my root password.
how to recover it?

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You need to reboot in single user mode.
Boot the machine, interrupt the process at the "10 second" prompt
interact with ISL
enter "hpux -is" at the ISL prompt.
You'll come up already logged in as root. Simply use the passwd command to reset the password and then "shutdown -r -y now" again to get back to normal, multi-user mode.

Robert-Jan

[KapilRaj]

reboot the node into Single usermod or LVM maintnance mode as follows and u will have a root session opened w/o passwd.

From IPL press any key within 10 (?) seconds
bo
Interact with IPL Y/N --- Y
hpux -is (Single user mod)
hpux -lm (Maintanance level)

passwd root

also there are many threads opened for this issue already do a search

Kaps

[SS_6]

Yes, Single user is the right way but if you have sudo install than also you can change it by sudo or if this system is trusted to another, try rlogin to this system from another as root user.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Yogesh,

Please check this link:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=379226

hth.