More lovely lovely Unix stuff!

I have been doing a lot of fun stuff on the terminal level (and in X11) on my mac and I am learning a lot of the Unix commands, thanks mostly to your input, everyone.

Thanks guys!!

GUESS WHAT I FOUND!!

An old AT&T computer with a good copy of UNIX system V ver. 3.2.2 installed!!! I boot it up and everything is running great. Unfortunately the login and password are still set and the company it came from has gone out of business and I have no way of knowing the login and password

Is there anyway for me to reset the login and password on the computer? I hope so! this thing looks like fun.


Thanks for all your help guys,
David

 

Wow...

I've never seen the google groups section of google. Its soo cool!!! It actually archives message boards and whatnot perfectly!

Thanks for the tip yzedf!

I found a bunch of answers there. Evidently most techniques require booting off the first floppy (of seven) of the OS install disks. Doing so allows access to

/dev/dsk/0s1 on the hard drive and allows you to modify the root entry.

At this time I don't have any disks for System V, but I think I can attach the hard drive to another computer and boot it up. If its NTFS or FAT I can access the file and change it there (or deleting it should allow loging in as "root" with no password)

Perhaps I could hack it too. I believe, though it is dangerous, if you mess with some of the more benign files, the system will recronstruct certain resources.... again, reseting root to a no password string.

If anybody has any ideas, I'd appreciate your input!!

Thanks yzedf

 

AHAH!!!

I got it! Theres a jumper on the motherboard to reset passwords.... its way underneath everything (hardrive, floppy drive, and a handful of nubus cards). However, I didnt use the jumper.... I was sure it was for a BIOS password and had nothing to do with the UNIX login.

So I was just frustrating myself until late last night, thinking I could GUESS the password for the root login.

Indeed I did!

Login: root (of course)
Password: r00t1

Good guess, I guess.

Now.... Whats the safest way to turn the thing off? Can I just switch it off? or is there a shutdown procedure?

 

Re: AAArgh

This computer wasn't used for anything important.... Just the storage of voicemail messages for an emergency medical office and NFS storage for some emergency medical workstations.

Aye, r00t1 is a horrible password.

You say that your root password is a good deal better ay?

login: root
Password: root?

There are some neat files on the machine. Somebody stuffed some very personal crap in the /bin directory, where it doesn't belong. Now I'm off to hunt down some software and write some networking stuff for it. I'm gonna use this baby to study UNIX for an upcomming job.

-David