On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:16, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > I need to hack root on an HP-UX machine. It belongs to our department > but the password is long forgotten. We don't have another working HP-UX > machine, so moving the HDs around isn't an option unless someone has an > HP-UX machine we can use (I'd rather not do that). > > Reinstalling the OS might be an option, but we'd need to get disks for > the latest version.
You can boot into single user mode without a password. I've seen it done, and a quick search on google found me this: Assuming it's HP-UX, boot the machine, interrupt the boot process (when the message saying you have 10 seconds to do so comes up), enter hpux -is at the ISL prompt. You'll be logged in as root once you come up in single user mode. Use the passwd command to change the passwd, then either reboot or enter "init 3" to get to multi user mode. Good Luck. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
