On Wed, 28 May 2003, Andrew Jorgensen said: > 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.
I haven't done it for several years, but I know it can be done! When it's booting, stop the auto boot, and do something like this: boot pri isl ISL> hpux -iS /stand/vmunix A couple URLs for reference: http://www-ugrad.cs.colorado.edu/udp/admin/hp_singleuser.html http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~help/unix/hpux/single.html http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd49a85079106d71190050090279cd0f9,00.html http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-254.html Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
