HPUX: Root Password issue.

Root Password issue.

Overview

Root Passwd : After repeat of reseting the password and still Login prompt is not accepting the root passwd.

Procedures

Root Passwd : After repeat of reseting the password and still Login prompt is not accepting the root passwd. [root@Mickey:/sbin/init.d]# #-> /usr/lbin/getprpw root user password file not found: root [root@Mickey:/sbin/init.d]# Root login is not able to accept the root password above error is encounter. [root@Mickey:/tcb/files/auth/r]# #-> /usr/lbin/getprpw root user password file not found: root It was later found that nsswitch.conf file which refer the Database for user ,group, host  etc has been change. Some pplication replace it with formate which is used in Linux System.   /etc/nsswitch.conf  DESCRIPTION       The operating system uses a number of "databases" of information about       hosts, users (passwd), groups and so forth.  Data for these can come       from a variety of sources:  host-names and -addresses, for example,       may be found in /etc/hosts, NIS, LDAP, or DNS.  One or more sources       may be used for each database; the sources and their lookup order are       specified in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. [root@Mickey:/tcb/files/auth/r]# #-> cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning. # # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the # next entry. # # Legal entries are: # #       compat                  Use Libc5 compatibility setup #       nisplus                 Use NIS+ (NIS version 3) #       nis                     Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP #       dns                     Use DNS (Domain Name Service) for IPv4 only #       dns6                    Use DNS for IPv4 and IPv6 #       files                   Use the local files #       db                      Use the /var/db databases #       [NOTFOUND=return]       Stop searching if not found so far # # For more information, please read the nsswitch.conf.5 manual page. # # passwd: files nis # shadow: files nis # group:  files nis passwd: centrifydc  compat group: centrifydc   compat hosts:      files dns dns6 networks:       files services:       files protocols:      files rpc:            files ethers:         files netmasks:       files netgroup:       files publickey:      files bootparams:     files automount:      files aliases:        files [root@Mickey:/tcb/files/auth/r]# . RESOLUTION. Format of nsswitch.conf file has been correct as per HPUX System. Then root password issue has been resolved.

Keywords.

Passwd, getprpw