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Alyce
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From: Austin, Alyce (CIV)
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:41 PM
To: 'The IBM z/VM Operating System'
Cc: Austin, Alyce (CIV)
Subject: RE: SLES10 IPL...
OK...I thought the "recover the root password" procedure was
too good to be true!
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Alyce,
> Thanks, Mike?should I IPL in single user mode to do your suggested steps
below?
No, IPL the install system (e.g. SLES10S2 EXEC) - you see this puts an
install system into memory and on the network, but then you have access to
the affected disk (the one with the /etc/shadow that has the
Subject: Re: SLES10 IPL...
Alyce,
> I found the procedure to enter single user mode in the Virtualization
Cookbook for SLES 10 SPs2
> (Oct 2008) on page 194 to recover the root password by entering the
following command at IPL:
>
> #cp vi vmsg 0 1
>
> However, whe
Alyce,
> I found the procedure to enter single user mode in the Virtualization
Cookbook for SLES 10 SPs2
> (Oct 2008) on page 194 to recover the root password by entering the
following command at IPL:
>
> #cp vi vmsg 0 1?.
>
> However, when I get to the end of the procedure, it asks for the
st
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:19 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES10 IPL...
>>> On 1/23/2009 at 3:48 PM, "Austin, Alyce (CIV)"
wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't have "sudo" set up yet on this system...
>
> Is there something else I c
>>> On 1/23/2009 at 3:48 PM, "Austin, Alyce (CIV)" wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't have "sudo" set up yet on this system...
>
> Is there something else I can try at single user mode, runlevel 1?
No. IPL from the rescue system (or the installation kernel/initrd). Activate
your root file syst
Mark Pace
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:34 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES10 IPL...
If you have given yourself the use of sudo without entering the root
password you can do
sudo passwd root
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Austin, Alyce (CIV)
wrote:
Hello,
I found the pro
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> Give root password for login:
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> runlevel 1 S
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> Login incorrect.
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> Give root password for login:
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> Login incorrect.
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> --
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> *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mail
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:02 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES10 IPL...
Do you have another running Linux server you have root access to? You
could give it permiss
Do you have another running Linux server you have root access to? You could
give it permission to link the disks of the failing server - mount it's
disks -- do chroot -- set the root password - exit - umount the disks -
bring up the server.
Or - any other user that has sudo authority you can logi
Hello,
Unfortunately, I have forgotten the root password
for my test system SLES10 SP2.
I tried to bring it up in single mode
to recover the root password, but I didn't
see the runlevel option for single mode during the IPL.
Has anyone try to ipl is single mode to reset the root
password?
Any su
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