or anyone who can break into my new Sun box Chuck...not sure if you'd check your WPI mail, but I didn't get the root password.... any clues? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:46:51PM -0700, Mike Leo wrote:
or anyone who can break into my new Sun box Chuck...not sure if you'd check your WPI mail, but I didn't get the root password.... any clues?
It depends, did you get a Solaris CD with the machine? If so, boot off it, drop to a prompt, edit the shadow file, sync;sync;reboot ... :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: I vow to consider your idea fairly, before I reject it.
No cd's. This is my first venture into Sun, but this is running Aurora right now anyway. Gona try a live cd and see what happens, but I also have the Sun Solaris 10 download. Ill try making a bootable Disk1 and try your suggestion. What is sync, sync, mean? --- Theo Van Dinter <felicity@kluge.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:46:51PM -0700, Mike Leo wrote:
or anyone who can break into my new Sun box Chuck...not sure if you'd check your WPI mail, but I didn't get the root password.... any clues?
It depends, did you get a Solaris CD with the machine? If so, boot off it, drop to a prompt, edit the shadow file, sync;sync;reboot ... :)
-- Randomly Generated Tagline: I vow to consider your idea fairly, before I reject it.
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:04:29PM -0700, Mike Leo wrote:
This is my first venture into Sun, but this is running Aurora right now anyway.
Oh. In that case, you can probably boot into single user mode, or my favorite of passing "init=/bin/sh" to the kernel, and edit shadow. ;) The live CD or whatever is good too.
What is sync, sync, mean?
"sync" is a command that suggests to the OS that it ought to flush its disk buffers out to the actual disk. A habit I picked up a while ago was to do two or three of them in a row before doing something to the system, such as rebooting, doing the ol' Stop-A/disconnect disk/go trick on the Sparc, etc. It's not normally needed, but just something I do for good measure in certain cirumstances. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Zapp: The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongey and bruised.
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