recover lost password

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

lallous typed (on Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0700):
| Hello,
|
| I am assigned to recover a lost SCO unix root password.
|
| I have wrote the installation image into a floppy disk and booted,
| then typed tools in the boot prompt.
|
| When the install program was about some questions I did "F8" and then
| broke out to the <Installation> prompt.
|
| I did successfully mount the drive into /mnt/
| I then added appropriate environment variables as suggested in:
|
| [url]http://tinyurl.com/i7fd[/url]

What ever that site is (never heard of it), what you needed to do, once
botted to the <Installation> prompt was:

mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/sh

Then you probably should run pwunconv, edit /etc/passwd, run pwconv, and
then authck -av.


--
JP

[lallous]

'chroot' is not there.
Not in any of /mnt/* directories nor in the /usr/bin or /bin or /sbin
directories.

This site: [url]www.tinyurl.com[/url] (if you clicked on the link I posted) would take
you to google groups.

Regards,
Elias

>
> What ever that site is (never heard of it), what you needed to do, once
> botted to the <Installation> prompt was:
>
> mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
> chroot /mnt /bin/sh
>
> Then you probably should run pwunconv, edit /etc/passwd, run pwconv, and
> then authck -av.
>
>
> --
> JP

[tony@aplawrence.com]

Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:

>lallous typed (on Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0700):
>| Hello,
>|
>| I am assigned to recover a lost SCO unix root password.
>|
>| I did successfully mount the drive into /mnt/
>| I then added appropriate environment variables as suggested in:
>|
>| [url]http://tinyurl.com/i7fd[/url]

>What ever that site is (never heard of it),

It's a place where you can take one of those idiotic 100 character url's and point
to it with a short little blip. I think it's a great idea for email, but it
should not be used in Newsgroups because the ng post will have far greater
longevity than that ever will.

>what you needed to do, once
>botted to the <Installation> prompt was:

> mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
> chroot /mnt /bin/sh

And for more details see the FAQ:
[url]http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/scotec1.html#root_3[/url]

because there are variations on the chroot sometimes necessary.

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[lallous]

Thanks JP and tony for your help.
I was breaking out of the install just before the "Keyboard" screen!
Now when I brake on that screen your instructions work fine!

Regards,
Elias