I need to get root access to two Sun Fire machines to retrieve some maildirs before the machines are killed. The V100 and V120 do not have keyboard, mouse, or video connectors. Instead, they have a serial/console port and a LOM port.
I am wondering if there is a way for me to reset the root password. It was lost. Basically, I just need to get in, get the maildirs, and get out. If I can get the root password then I can ssh in, or just log in using the console port and scp the maildirs out. The Sun Fire V100 and V120 have standard IDE disks. I could possibly take the disks out and read them that way (I'm assuming I can read the Sun's file system using something like FreeBSD or Linux--does Sun use UFS?), but I would prefer to just get the files without taking the boxes apart. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.
