From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05675 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:31:26 -0700 Received: by wallace.ece.rice.edu via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:34:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:34:20 -0600 From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" To: Mark Wild Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Thanks...alot Message-ID: <20000107113420.C9918@rice.edu> References: <51C39E66FF96D11194FCAA0004000304933A96@tele02.localnet> <200001071552.JAA01881@egsner.cirr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200001071552.JAA01881@egsner.cirr.com>; from eric@cirr.com on Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:52:30AM -0600 List-ID: On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:52:30AM -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote: > > Mark Wild writes: > - From: eric@cirr.com [mailto:eric@cirr.com] > - > You might check to see what interpreter is called out at > - > the top of /etc/rc. If it's still /bin/sh, go verify what > - > /bin/sh points to.. > - > - How can I do that? I'm not familiar with all the options/commands > - of the hpux command from the ISL prompt. > > I was suggesting you do that from a multi-user login > (assuming you've got one.. perhaps a rash assumption..) Mark, you seem to be in the same situation I was, witha similarly decommissioned 730 (academic leftover): no root, no account at all! It booted to a X/OpenVue login screen just fine, however. (Had to take it down hard with the toc switch, after that.) Not knowing any of the HP-UX specific tricks, I fell back on a maxim from computer security: 'There is no computer security without physical security.' I yanked the boot HD, dropped it onto the SCSI chain of my linux box, used grep on the 'raw' block device as so: grep -ba 'root:[^:]\{13\}:' to find all occurences of something that looked like a root passwd entry, with crypt()ed password, and fired up lde (Linux Disk Editor) to change it to the hash for a password I knew. Worked great! Strangely enough, I found 6 copies, with three different passwords. Once logged in as root, I used the standard utilities to change passwords again, just in case there was something I missed. Ross P.S. Later, I aquired the Y2K 9.X->10.20 upgrade kit, with the core 10.20 CD. You just need to call the HP fulfillment desk, and give them the part number from the web site. I order it on 12/7, they shipped 12/14, FEDEX, so charge. I even recieved and invoice for part B6815AA, cost 0.00 Unfortunately, it's not bootable on a 730. Oh, the webpage that mentions all this: http://www.hp.com/visualize/programs/y2k/y2k_menu/y2k_upgr/oskit.html It give an 800 number for calling from the U.S. You'll have to trackdown HP UK number to call, I'm afraid. -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005