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.
>
>
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