[ug-bosug] Root password forgotten.

[Yousuf]

Boot of CD,
Mount the root partition on /mnt or /tmp/a. Then edit /etc/passwd & 
/etc/shadow files remove the second entry for root user.

rgds,
yousuf

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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