Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-05 Thread Tapley, Mark via cctalk
On Feb 3, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: > On 02/01/2018 02:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: >> Is there a standard procedure for recovering lost passwords for these >> systems, or for resetting passwords? I do have physical access to the >>

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-04 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 02/01/2018 02:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: Is there a standard procedure for recovering lost passwords for these systems, or for resetting passwords? I do have physical access to the machine; it’s possible I can find an AIX install disk but it’s *highly* desirable to preserve the

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-02 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 02/02/2018 06:26 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote: thanks most kindly to all! It is rare in this hobby that I can report that things went perfectly the first time, but this is one of those times. I have reset the root password and logged in successfully, and the machine appears to be

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-02 Thread Tapley, Mark via cctalk
On Feb 2, 2018, at 2:49 PM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote: > I had this experience with a Tadpole N40, running AIX 3. > > I simply DD'ed the drive, took the image... > $ strings aix-machine.img | grep root: > ...to get the password line. > > Dump that into a passwd file

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-02 Thread Ian Finder via cctalk
I had this experience with a Tadpole N40, running AIX 3. I simply DD'ed the drive, took the image... $ strings aix-machine.img | grep root: ...to get the password line. Dump that into a passwd file and run john (the password cracker utility) on it for a couple days. I don't think Linux can

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-01 Thread Pete Lancashire via cctalk
I like the idea of creating an image before something could screwup what is on the disk. dd is your friend -pete On Feb 1, 2018 7:28 PM, "Tapley, Mark via cctech" wrote: > On Feb 1, 2018, at 2:32 PM, et...@757.org wrote: > > >> Is there a standard procedure for

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-01 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
On Feb 1, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: >> Image the hard drive off to a raw file using a linux host with a SCSI HBA? >> >> Once that is done, it might be possible to run a hex editor against the hard >> drive (one that doesn't copy the contents into RAM) and then search for

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-01 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 02/01/2018 01:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: Is there a standard procedure for recovering lost passwords for these systems, or for resetting passwords? I do have physical access to the machine; it’s possible I can find an AIX install disk but it’s *highly* desirable to preserve the

Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-01 Thread Tapley, Mark via cctalk
All, I’m trying to resurrect an AIX workstation that may well contain useful information for the NASA IMAGE spacecraft. The system is an IBM RiscSystem/6000 43P-140 according to the badge on the front (which I think is reasonably accurate). It’s running a version of AIX

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-01 Thread Jonathan Katz via cctalk
This may have the answer. AIX was certainly in version 4 at that point, so this should work. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000366 On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: > All, > I’m trying to resurrect an AIX

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-01 Thread Ethan via cctalk
Is there a standard procedure for recovering lost passwords for these systems, or for resetting passwords? I do have physical access to the machine; it’s possible I can find an AIX install disk but it’s *highly* desirable to preserve the contents of the existing hard drive. Image the hard