sometimes, not always, the root password is the prom password...
you could try and copy the /etc/shadow entry for root's account and see if
john-the-ripper or crack will break the password and then try that. rf.
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Subject: Re: Off the topic: How to break PROM passwd on Sun
Mark
Unless he gets that far, he can use eeprom.
To be honest with you, I haven't seen this machine. I
am going by my friend's words. He says as soon as he
boots up, he is presented with a PROM passwd which he
doesn't know. When he interrupts boot sequence, and
types at the ok prompt --> boot cdrom or boot disk, it
asks for a passwd.
I did check out this site earlier. Thx, anyway.
Ragu
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> Various possible solutions that have worked in the
> past:
>
>
> 1. If you can boot the system and login as root.
> Type: eeprom
> security-mode=none
> 2. Pull the prom chip out of the socket and re-seat
> that should get rid of
> the password
> 3. Check out:
> http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
>
>
> At 10:36 AM 12/28/00 -0800, ragu nandan wrote:
> >Hi
> > Other than replacing the PROM chip, are there
> ways
> >to break the PROM passwd on a Sparc 5 running
> Solaris.
> >The security mode is set to Standard and not Full.
> Thx
> >Ragu
> >
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