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Article #1288Re: Help logging into an RT for which the password has been lost
From: Simon Greaves
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:41
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:41
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I've done this, when I got my RT the same had happened. The way I did it was to use the 'maintenance/install' diskette, get a single-user shell, mount the root filesystem and edit the /etc/passwd file to remove the passwd entry for root. My RT was running AIX 2.1.2 also. I only had a 2.2.1 install/maint disk but this worked fine. Basically if you can get hold of the floppy you should have no real problems. If stuck, email me at address below. Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Greaves | Janet: censjg@uk.ac.hw.clust Systems & Comms programmer | Internet: simong@festival.ed.ac.uk Computer Centre | Fax: +44 31 451 3261 Heriot-Watt University | Voice: +44 31 451 3265 Edinburgh EH14 4AS | Uk | "Pretty with hairy legs" --A.Belew
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk!censjg From: censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Help logging into an RT for which the password has been lost Message-ID: <1993Jan21.154129.13793@cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 21 Jan 93 15:41:29 GMT References: <1j7es1INNhpn@morrow.stanford.edu> Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Lines: 19