# Sol 11 login

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/sol-11-login/392232>\
**Category:** Solaris\
**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sol-11-login/392232 "2023-10-11T21:04:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![goya](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/goya/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@goya](https://community.unix.com/u/goya)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sol-11-login/392232/1 "2023-10-11T21:04:05Z")

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Have an issue , we inherited a solaris 11 box. and everything was okay.. but I didn not want my login to expire since we dont login that often. So i removed exp in /etc/shadow and did

passwd -x usrname to wipe out aging.

only 2 of us had the root role.  
the bad news is that both of our logins did expire anyway and we are locked out.

I know the root pw , but since we expired we cant log in or even from the console

we can not su to root.

i have broken into sol 10 many times. but 11 is a whole new ball game..

i even tried to burn a bootable dvd, and that did not work.

Is there any trick out there or workaournd to save this and somehow get back in? it is really a pain.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![MadeInGermany](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/madeingermany/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@MadeInGermany](https://community.unix.com/u/MadeInGermany)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 5:56am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sol-11-login/392232/2 "2023-10-12T05:56:10Z")

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passwd -x is about password **aging** ; it is possible (and necessary) to change an aged out password.  
Passsword **expiration** is something else, and really locks out the user; you should not apply it to all root-role users.

I don't know Solaris 11 well.  
Maybe you have to recover it.  
Certainly this is a case for the Oracle support.  
I found the following article about recovery:

> <https://serverfault.com/questions/360737/oracle-solaris-11-x64-root-password>

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.unix.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c7e9e16a595259edafe88615719d5c5dcda035c2.png) [@system](https://community.unix.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 5:56am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sol-11-login/392232/3 "2023-10-26T05:56:17Z")

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