Answer / kishore devkate

Boot the server from cdrom steps below.
at the Ok Promt
1) Ok>boot cdrom -s :to boot in the single user mode

you will get #(has) prompt
#

2) mount the root file system on /a directory
i,e
#mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a

3) remove the encrypted passwd from the /a/etc/shadow file
then save the file
i,e
#vi /a/etc/shadow
remove the root user encrypted passwd
:wq!

4) reboot the server
i,e

#init 6

How to use disk quotas in solaris (command mode) ? what is the procedure for how to allocate particular space to particular user

2 Answers   HP,

---

How do you connect to remote machines? I said using secure crt using ssh.

1 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---

What is the login shell?

0 Answers  

---

How do you update OBP firmware?

2 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---

how to create passwords in nis?

3 Answers   DELL, IBM, TCS,

---

Performace degradations in NFSv4 when upgraded from NFSv3? problems with NFS v4?

0 Answers   IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

---

how to check network card speed ? set it mode(half/full duplex)? ndd -get /dev/hme0 link-speed ndd -get /dev/hme0 link-mode

5 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---

If system got crashed. How do u troubleshoot? What are starting steps?

5 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---

What is the importance of shadow file?

3 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---

what is the main usage of maintaining the system logs in solaris

1 Answers  

---

Process between Kernel and Shell when a command is executed?

2 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---

Jumpstart?

2 Answers   Satyam, Wipro,

---