I've tried to boot from ROM SHELL, but there is no such way, the permissions are'nt enought to edit, even to view the file /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd.master, i read an article about password recovery of SGI IRIX 6.5, you need the CD Install, which i dont have, ive try to crack the password (according to John the ripper docs), not successfull, debian wont boot from CD, and they said Debian MIPS dont support SGI O2, Is it true?
Sayang naman yung SGI O2, anybody has the CD Installer of SGI IRIX 6.5 > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> I have a SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5, i dont have the installer cd, and i >> cant >> login as root, because dont have the <#password>, how do i reset the >> password > > We used to do "backdoor"ing into our DEC Alpha 2000 systems, > whenever we forget the root password. I believe that the method > we used before can be modified to work with any Unix system. > > Try to get into the monitor (cmos) program, the program in rom that > boots the IRIX system. You will probably need to read the > SGI monitor documentation. While in the monitor program, you > can boot single-user, similar to "linux single" for Intel-RedHat > systems. When you have successfully entered IRIX in single user > mode, the partition containing /usr will probably not have been > mounted yet, so the only tools you can use are those in /bin. > Fortunately, /bin/ed is usually available, so you can use that to > edit /etc/passwd. ( or is it /etc/shadow? ), by removing the root > password. > > Then you can reboot the system normally. > > P~Manalastas > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
