[ug-bosug] Mounting a Solaris partition

[Binu Jose Philip]

Srichand Pendyala <srichand.pendyala at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 6/5/06, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>           Hi all:
>      
>      My friend Sandeep (whom I've CC'd on this mail, and who'll be joining
>      BoSUG soon) has a problem. At his office, they have an x86 box
>      containing Sun One, and the person who'd configured the root password
>      has left. He needs to reset that password (and I can vouch for him,
>      he's a sysadmin I've known for years :) ).
>      
>
>
> I am not entirely sure, but doesn't Solaris also have a single user more, ie init 1?
> Is there a switch that can be passed as a kernel parameter in the bootloader for that?
> If so, isn't it easier to just change the password from there?

boot with '-s' will take you to single user mode, but you'l still
need the root password to get a shell.

fstyp(1m) can tell (most of the time) type of the file system
on a slice.

cheers
Binu

> Regards,
> Srichand.
> --
> Srichand Pendyala
> http://srichand.net.in/
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