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SCO root password recovery

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by jgtyler 1 view

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The root password has been lost for a SCO 2.01 box, we do not have emergency recovery disks. Is their a way to "break" the boot cycle to access single user mode or some other way to get into this box? HELP!!

New job, old Admin took info with them.

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by jgtyler

Have already read that article, don't have root access, can't create emergency disks.

by ghislain.levesque

boot from cd, exit to shell, mount the root partiton, remove root password and reboot. That's how I would have done it under Solaris/HP/Tru64!

Hope it help.

by ghislain.levesque

if you have another sco server, remove the disk and install it the other server, mount that partition and edit the password file...

by ghislain.levesque

if you don't have another server running SCO, you could use a spare disk and install SCO on it, mount your original root partition, modify the password file...

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