[H-GEN] debian/sparc lost root password

[Igor Kromin]

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got it working, at the silo prompt enter 'linux single rw init=/bin/sh'
then of course cat /dev/null > /etc/passwd
and then emacs /etc/passwd
and set up your root account with a blank password
this box is up and running, no problems!

thanks for your help


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From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of
Scott Pullen
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:11 PM
To: general @ lists . humbug . org . au
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] debian/sparc lost root password


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I have asked around the office and then general concensus is that you are
screwed ... having said that you, if you have the sun keyboard hit 'stop-a'
and then
at the prompt type 'boot -s' . this should boot you into single user mode
and with a
little luck you will not be asked for a password.  You should then have full
access
to the box.  You may need to mount the various filesystems to access the
files
that you need,

Cheers,

Scott.



> Igor Kromin <ikromin at fimble.com> wrote:
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> hi,
>
> i've just acquired a sparcstation 5 with debian linux installed on
> it, but
> guess what, unknown root password and unknown passwords for other
> accounts
> on it. is there any way that i could over-ride this password? i tried
> cat
> /dev/null > /etc/passwd from the silo prompt, but it seems that silo
> does
> not redirect output.
>
> there is no floppy or cdrom in this sparcstation.
>
> any help appreciated.
> thanks
>
>
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Scott Pullen
spullen at optusnet.com.au
s.pullen at qut.edu.au
QUT PASS Leader

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