From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f98IRVD23186 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:27:31 -0700 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f98IRSD23182 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:27:28 -0700 Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15qf7X-0005LI-00; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:27:19 +0200 Received: from pd95901a8.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.89.1.168] helo=thalreit.de) by mrvdom00.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15qf7W-0002pN-00; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:27:19 +0200 Message-ID: <3BC1F004.75494A32@thalreit.de> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 20:27:16 +0200 From: Volker Jahns Organization: Thalreit/DE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Password recovery on IRIX box References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Brian wrote: > > I have an origin 200 I have been wanting to run linux on, its been sitting > up for a while. Before I wipe out and install linux, I need to get in > there to get some stuff of the drives. But I do not know the root > password. Can anyone direct me to password recovery procedures for IRIX? > > Brian > > ----------------------------------------------- > Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036 e: signal@shreve.net > Network Engineer p: 318.222.2638x109 > ShreveNet Inc. f: 318.221.6612 OK, a good and fast way is to boot into IRIX w/ its installation cd. Then mount the root partition and fix /etc/passwd. -- Volker Jahns, Volker.Jahns@thalreit.de, http://thalreit.de