When I try to do a "bsd -s" from the monitor I still get a password
prompt. That was after removing the hardware password by leaving the
battery out of the machine for two days!
George Rachor
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George L. Rachor george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can blow away the netinfo database if you like... tho' it's
> somewhat crude.
> There's a simple way to hijack a NeXT computer from the console.
>
> >From the Rom-based console type:
> bsd -s
>
> Once it boots do:
> sh /etc/rc &
> passwd root
> <type in your password>
> reboot
> (Physically turn system off and then on again at reboot)
>
> Note that of course you can't do this unless you're sitting at the
> console.
>
> Another tip:
> If you have troubles writing files in single user mode (using bsd
> -s), just remount the file system:
>
> moun t -o remount /
>
> ----
>
> It's too bad you didn't notice the great applications that are
> around for NeXTStep a couple years earlier. You would have seen a
> great many more of them than are available today anywhere. Pre-press
> was awesome with postscript. More average applications like
> scanning applications and such are way ahead of their time. And then
> of course there's the Lighthouse Application Suite which you did
> find [that's great]!
>
> Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server is <deleted> <deleted> <deleted> <deleted>
> Oops... I think that's supposed to be a surprise.
>
> I just bought a 68030 cube last week. I'm currently running
> NeXTStep on Sun Sparc hardware. Since my 68040 machine is at work
> it'll be fun to set up some CRON jobs that run DSP [audio] programs
> at home. First I have to find an affordable monitor, keyboard, mouse
> and long connector cable for it.
>
> There are all sorts of fun things you can do with a NeXT computer.
> It is the ultimate hobbyist computer if you give it half a chance.
>
> I have a NeXT machine at http://next.ireadyco.com and software along
> with some software not on the archives if anyone is interested.
>
> Speaking of software not on the archives, there's a lot of neat
> hobbiest stuff that was released with the original OS and machine in
> 1988. Most of this has disappeared off the NeXT archives (peak,
> peanuts, etc). I found a lot of it on an old-days CD-ROM I bought at
> NeXTWorld.
>
> Thomas
>
Received on Sun Sep 20 1998 - 00:26:28 BST