On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:20 +0100, Richard Mortimer wrote: > Ok, so you say that it asks for a password after doing stop-A. That's > probably typical of University machines because it makes it harder for > students/staff bypassing privileges. > > As someone else said the easiest is probably to zap the OBP settings by > playing with the contents of the device outside of the machine. > > Failing that you need to get logged in a root on the existing OS (Solaris I > presume) and then you can reset the password/security settings using the > eeprom command. Alternatively if you can put a suitable kernel & root image where it expects to boot from (with security set up it was only intended to boot from one place - often network) then you can use the Linux OpenPROM filesystem and read the password setting out of the PROM as it is stored unencrypted.
HTH Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
