recover lost password

From: lallous (lallous_at_lgwm.org)
Date: 07/27/03 

Date: 27 Jul 2003 11:36:55 -0700

Hello,

I am assigned to recover a lost SCO unix root password.

I have wrote the installation image into a floppy disk and booted,
then typed tools in the boot prompt.

When the install program was about some questions I did "F8" and then
broke out to the <Installation> prompt.

I did successfully mount the drive into /mnt/
I then added appropriate environment variables as suggested in:

http://tinyurl.com/i7fd

now my $OPT=/mnt/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga
I verified the existance of files and pathes w/ the 'echo $OPT/lib/*'
and I got files listed!
so $OPT is okay now.
I checked for $OPT/lib and $OPT/usr/lib which had libprot.so.1 and at
least libc.so.1 respectively.

Now I did: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH
then tried to run 'vi' and I get "Killed"

My PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH are correct but it seems that the loader is
ignoring the LD_LIBRARY_PATH ?

Is it possible to change the password using these primitive tools I
have? or I must buy the AirBar or similar recovery tools ?

How much chance do I have if I DiskEdit the whole disk and search for
'root:' and try to clear the password like that?
As I read that this alone is not enough and I must also clear what is
in /etc/shadow file and in /tcb/files/auth/r/root (which have
encrypted forms) ...

Please adivse.

Regards,
Elias

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