> Apologies for the newbie ignorance in advance - I am a
> recently appointed sysadmin (AIX v.4.3.2).  The
> previous sysadmin departed without turning over
> selected passwords, including the ADSM admin password.
>  Is there any way of recovering this password, or
> another password sufficiently powerful to change it,
> short of re-installing the whole of ADSM on the
> server?
> I realize that this may seem like a crude attempt at a
> hack, but any solution involving root password
> knowledge would be just fine.

Yes.  You need to halt the running ADSM server.  At the UNIX level,
change to the ADSM bin directory, start the "dsmserv" program
manually.

After ADSM starts up, you will have an "adsm>" prompt.  Issue a
"update admin admin newpassword" to set the admin account password.


To halt the running ADSM server you will need
 - an ADSM login with operator then issue the 'halt' command
 - or a root login and send a "kill -TERM pid" or "kill -KILL pid"
   to the dsmserv process.  That is best done when the server is quiet.

Information on resetting the root password on AIX can be found on the
web or IBM's site.  (I don't run AIX, so don't have a definitive answer)

Russell