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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX
- Message-ID: <1366@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 06:38:09 GMT
- References: <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.
- Lines: 21
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- In an article, syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
- >Ok...this is embaressing...we forgot the root password on a seldom used
- >SCO UNIX box. We're trying to figure out how to do a single-user mode
- >boot so that the root password is not required to login.
-
- 1. Boot from floppy (you should have made a boot/root pair
- when you installed the system; if you didn't, then boot
- from the install floppies and break the install procedure)
-
- 2. Mount /dev/hd0root on /mnt
-
- 3. Edit the file /mnt/tcb/files/auth/r/root, clearing the
- contents of u_pwd (this is the password)
-
- 4. Unmount /dev/hd0root and reboot the system; you'll be able
- to login as root (most likely you'll be forced to enter
- a new password at login)
-
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- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
-