zfs discuss - Dec 2010 - unable to login with root

dear all

i have a solaris 11 express installed with ZFS . Recently i forgot the
password and i reset the password to empty password and when i reboot i get
this message.

pam_authtok_get : login : empty password not allowed for root from
localhost.

I dont know the ip address of this machine to login from remote host and
there is no othere user except root.

Please give your suggestions.

Thanks/Regards
Sadiq
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:07:15 +0300, Mohammed Sadiq
<sadiq1425 at gmail.com> wrote:
>dear all
>
>i have a solaris 11 express installed with ZFS . Recently i forgot the
>password and i reset the password to empty password and when i reboot i get
>this message.
>
>pam_authtok_get : login : empty password not allowed for root from
>localhost.
>
>I dont know the ip address of this machine to login from remote host and
>there is no othere user except root.
Trying to remote login will probably give the same symptoms.

Boot in single user mode (add -s on the grub kernel line).
You get a console login prompt. Login as root.
That one might accept an empty password (untested).

If that fails, boot from a live CD, mount the root pool in /a or
/mnt, and paste the hash of a known password into the second field
of the entry for root in /etc/shadow

The hash for the password  "solaris" (without the quotes) is
$5$3Euhlh2Y$E9qTjs62HIoipqTwY75Ox.JDVgk/9QFglv.w1rE4wE0

Hope this helps.
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