How to brk the root pwd?

Answer Posted / chowdary

boot the server into single user mode inserting cdrom.
ok>boot cdrom -s
#pwd
/tmp/root
now mount the root filesystem temporarily
#mkdir abc
#mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /tmp/root/abc
#cd abc
#pwd
/tmp/root/abc
#cd etc
#vi shadow
delete the encrypted password of root,
now reboot the system.
#init 6

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