On Jan 15, 2004, at 1:19 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > 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.
Good luck.... I know of no easy way to reset the password on Solaris. It is not as easy as most linux boxes. "boot -s" doesn't cut it with Solaris. > > 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. > Yes... Sun uses UFS. In my opinion your best bet is what you say here... get the hard drive and read using another Sun or PC. > Any suggestions are welcome, thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Shannon Roddy LIGO - Caltech 225.686.3106 (work) 225.933.7821 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
