Hi, i've installed Solaris 8 perfectly, with all of the cd's it asked me for...
documentation, additional software, etc....

but now, it is asking me for a password, i can choose to log in in CDE mode, Solaris 8 mode, etcetera... but i dont know which username and password it is asking me for!!!
i've tried with user=root pass=root password but it says "login failed, try again"

it will be the first time i'm going to log in... thanks in advance!!!

The installation should have prompted you on what you want the root password to be. If you left this blank, then just enter a return. If you filled this in, enter the password you chose.

i didnt leave it blank...

and when it asks me for a username i type ROOT and then i type the password i chose during installation...

what did i do wrong?

hi,
if you have written user=ROOT then you have to login as ROOT and not as root. on the other hand in solaris aviod such as user name root becaus root is in solaris default superuser.

If you installed using Interactive Install, towards the end of the installation it will ask you a password for "root" account.

If you installed using WebStart then somewhere near the beginning it will do the same.

Either way, you must remember the password you've entered. Login as "root" and that password.. it is case-sensitive.

If you cannot remember what password you've entered, then clear the root password by booting up from the CDROM (ok boot cdrom -s). Do an fsck on your root disk before mounting it to tmpfs (# fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0; mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a). Set the display (DISPLAY=sun; export DISPLAY). Clear away the second column which consists of 13 encrypted characters of the shadow file (# vi /a/etc/shadow). Finally, unmount the root disk and reboot (# cd /; umount /a; reboot).

You can log into your system just by entering "root" as the username. Be sure to set a password after you log in and don't forget it again :)

All done in 300 seconds.. try it.

you are going to kill me... hehehe..
i didnt know it was case sensitive...
i finally could access today!!!

see ya...

you need to change the password to a combination of letters and numbers that are very un-common to unscramble.

aA127HIekbH or something else. you could also use something that you could remember but very hard to unscramble if someone is cracking your server

--i.e. 123KingPen456

So this is case sensitive and has numbers in it.