[ug-bosug] Root password forgotten.

[Ananth Shrinivas]

Hey Anil,

Boot into failsafe.

# chroot /a /usr/bin/bash
# passwd

That should work AFAIR

Ananth

Anil Gulecha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Solaris on this PC in college around a week back, and set 
> the password to something I cant recollect. Is there anyway to reset it. 
> The install is fresh, so I don't mind doing a sys-unconfig, but I cant 
> seem to. I did reboot in failsafe mode and tried a few commands, but 
> couldn't get it working. Could someone point out the exact steps?
> 
> Regards
> Anil
> 
> 
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