[parisc-linux] Thanks...alot

[Eric Schnoebelen]

tom@piace.com writes:
- 	Does anyone know if hp has a development version of hpux like
- sun has with solaris?  If not does anyone know of a way to reset the
- password from the console.

	Depending upon the OS version and the settings, you
should be able to boot the system to single user mode, and reset
the password.  I'm a bit out of practice, but if you ``boot
isl'', and then enter `/hp-ux -is' (for 9.0x) or `/stand/vmunix
-is' (for 10.20), you should be get a single user prompt,
without having to enter a password (later OS versions may
require the root password to enter single user mode.)

- 	My only other idea is to find a diff scsi card that I can put
- into my other linux box, and try to mount the root partions, and edit the
- password file.  

	That probably won't work, as the filesystem used by
HP-UX is just enough different that Linux won't be able to mount
it..  If it's a 10.20 or later system, running LVM, Linux
_realy_ won't know what to do with it..

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