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.
And this one looks a little more explicitely helpful: http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x20727cffe265d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html How to: boot the box shutdown -ry now Interupt at the 10 second prompt. bo <enter> A question comes up about interacting with the IPL Y <enter> hpux -is <enter> The root user is on, with minimal utilities and no filesystems other than root mounted. Bryan P.S. I'll stop now. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
