Root password on solaris 5.7?

[cctech at porky.vax-11.org]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> Evening folks,
>>
>> Today I was given a Sun Enterprise Ultra 2 but the machine's been out of use
>> for so long nobody can remember anything about it, which is handy. Googling
>> tells me I need a Solaris install CD to change the root password....bummer
>> since I don't have one.
>>
>> I'm a VAX/Alpha guy, if I want to break a system it's relatively easy but I
>> know nothing about Suns......
>>
>> It's running SunOS 5.7 if that's any help....
>
> 'boot -s' from the OpenBoot prompt might get you into single user, or did
> they finally start requiring a password by default for that.
>
> 	Zane
>

You can probably boot a Linux recovery disk and mount the Solaris root 
filesystem, and change it manually... You might have to track down the 
shadow password as well. Or you could pull the disk and plug it into a 
Linux system and change it that way.

Clint