In message <34ECD824.2F193E8B_at_cnct.com>, gram_at_cnct.com writes:
>Joe wrote:
>
>> Do you know anything about the AT&T 7300? I picked up one yesterday.
>> It has ver 3.51 onn it but it's looking for a password. Is there a way
>> around that or a default password?
>
>Your best bet is to see whether the "install" account is passworded.
>By default it isn't, and that account can change the root password.
>If there is _any_ account that can login, there are enough setuid
>root components in the user agent that there will probably be a way
>to get root authority. Unless it's a system that was owned by a
>bastard like me who tracked down and "fixed" (like a veterinarian
>with a tomcat) all of the security holes.
Install really is your best bet. But failing that, try the account
tutor. It often doesn't have a password either. From that or any
other normal user account, send mail to yourself. When the envelope
icon appears in the top status bar, click it to bring up the message.
Now shell out of the mail program (using the !) and you should
have a root prompt. If you can't get into any user account, then
you should look into getting a set of the installation media. There
are folks who sell them periodically on comp.sys.3b1. You might
also get able to get someone to make up a rescue boot disk that will
let you mount the hard disk and edit the password file with ed if
you ask nicely. I'd also invite you to peruse my 3b1/7300 web page
at
http://www.mathcs.rhodes.edu/~stuart/3b1/3b1.html.
Brian L. Stuart
Received on Fri Feb 20 1998 - 10:45:42 GMT