Hey,

Depending on what configuration you have, this can be easy or very painful.

If you are running a normal install and haven't changed the /etc/passwd file
ie: admin:x:0:0::/home/admin:/bin/cpshell

AND

know you expert password...Do the following.

boot up with the SPLAT CD and go into maintenance mode. Enter your expert
password, boot up then type ' passwd admin '

That's it!

The harder part is if you don't know your Expert Password.

You can do a number of things,

1) Create another SPLAT install in a VM and copy /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd
from the VM where you know the password and put it on to the install where
you forgot the password. (just takes a long time)

2) Boot up with another Linux CD (the Knoppix CD didn't work for me in this
instance), so I used a Redhat Linux Rescue CD and do the following:

Mount the SecurePlatform OS and change (if out of default):
/mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd to use cpshell for admin.
then change expert password by: ' chroot /mnt/sysimage /bin/expert_password
reboot with SPLAT cd and go into maintenance mode
login using your new expert password (hopefully you haven't forgotten it by
now) and change the admin password: ' passwd admin'



Hope this helps...




On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, No Name Available <[email protected]>wrote:

> I need to do a password recovery on SPLAT box running r65. Appreciate if
> someone could let me know of the procedure.
> kind regards
>
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