On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:19:42AM -0600, 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.
Yeah, I still try to keep at least 1 working dump terminal around just for this kind of problem. > 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 stop-a suggestion ray gave is the only thing I can think of at the moment as well. If I come up with an alternate option, I'll let you know. > 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 Solaris uses UFS, however, Sun has added some of their own extensions to it, such as journalling (at least as of late Solaris 8 MUs). I'm fairly certain the v100s shipped with a later release of Solaris 8 that would have had the journalling on by default. -- Bryce T. Pier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
