Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!sgi!arisia!mdixon From: mdixon@thelonius.PARC.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: changing su password in netinfo Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 89 01:56:19 GMT Sender: news@arisia.Xerox.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 15 somehow we've lost the su password to one of our machines. if it were a vanilla unix box i'd just boot it single user and hack the /etc/passwd file, but with netinfo running that's not enough. i can't seem to niload the new passwd file without netinfo running, but of course if i run netinfo i can't log in su & hence can't do the niload. the only fix i can think of is to boot single user and smash the netinfo database (/etc/netinfo/local.nidb/collection, as far as i can tell) with a copy from the original system disk. is there really no better way to do this? .mike. p.s. they're on a net, but each has just a local netinfo database -- Mike Dixon Xerox PARC mdixon@arisia.xerox.com