I can't help you on the disks and its been a while since I reset the root password on a Sun box. The good news is that it is possible, the bad news is that you probably need the install disk to reset the password. As I recall (Sun's site should have the specifics) you hold down the Option-A key during boot to get it to drop into the hardware monitor, tell it to boot from the install CD, exit to a shell, reset the password, drop back into the monitor and boot from the hard disk. To change the password I think I edited /etc/shadow to set it to blank and then used passwd after rebooting. Good luck. --rick Josh Trutwin wrote: >Sorry for the OT post, but this is the first place I think of for this question. > >I recently became the proud owner of 2 Sunfire V120's. Without too much of a headache, I put Debian woody on one of em, but I'd like to keep Solaris on the other so I can play with it. Unfortunately, these didn't come with the original CD's or the root passwords to the current version of Solaris running on them. I'd like to reinstall Solaris, so I'm wondering if anyone has a CD of Solaris they no longer need? Doesn't have to be the most recent version, mostly doing this to pad the resume. > >Otherwise, does anyone know if booting into singe user mode is possible to reset the root password similar to linux init=/bin/bash on Linux? > >Thanks, > >Jsoh > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list