Re: Interactive Unix password recovery
- From: andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Gabriel)
- Date: 11 Apr 2008 21:27:49 GMT
In article <19bfd1f5-012c-4d39-8089-9389ddc20d89@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
cgebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I have an ancient Interactive Unix box with an application still
running on it. The passwords were lost long ago. I need to change
the IP address on it. Is there any way to recover the lost password?
Rummaging around at the back of my brain, I think you boot it
with the "-i s" option to boot single user. I can't recall if
it asks for a password in single user mode -- most unixes didn't
used to back then. If it does, that isn't going to help.
The other option is to boot the install floppy which I think
works up to about ISC 4.0 and gives you a floppy based system with
a root shell (remember when unixes would run from a floppy? ;-)
IIRC, 4.0.1 and 4.1 could no longer fit a system onto the floppy
and you couldn't do this anymore.
--
Andrew Gabriel
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