RE: [cobalt-users] Qube3: recover root password

[Bob G7 <Bob_G7@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> >
> >> I've just fired up my used Qube3, which we purchased on Ebay, and
> >> hit the reset to clear the previous admin password, but it
> >> appears this doesn't clear the root password... if it does, then
> >> it gets reset to something different to the admin password.
> >>
> >> Can anyone advise what it gets reset to (if anything);
> >> alternatively, can is the a procedure to regaining a lost root
> >> password on a Qube3.
> >>
> >> For the record, I have telnet working for admin, but no root
> >> password (and the admin password doesn't work for su - root).
> >>
> >Since you have a used machine, restore the it, who knows what
> kind of trash
> >is on the machine.
>
>
> it was supposedly restored already, although it never came with a
> restore disk - I'm looking for a restore disk ISO file somewhere
> - got a link?
>
> tia
>
> Greg Hewitt-Long
>
> ps - if anyone has a link to a step-by-step guide to restore from
> CD, I'd appreciate the link
> --
http://jsecom15a.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=Sun_C
obalt-restore-G-F&TransactionId=Try&LMLoadBalanced=