Need SGI Classic Cmp Help

From: THETechnoid_at_home.com <(THETechnoid_at_home.com)>
Date: Mon Nov 20 13:15:46 2000

This is the way I cracked my Sunbox's root password under solaris:

Pull drive from Sunbox.
Mount drive on clone running linux, sco, netbsd, openbsd, solaris,
whatever will read the partition. Mount partition (read only)
copy the etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files to a floppy
download a copy of John the Ripper.
Run John the Ripper on the passwd/shadow files.
John will give you some passwords and usernames
Pull drive from work machine and reinstall in original machine. Boot.
If root password is included then use it.
If not root password then use another you got but set system date in
firmware to a date PRIOR to the creation date of the user you are logging
in as then log in as that user. The system will panic because your
username/password are valid but can't exist yet because of date and will
bomb to single-user mode. Change root password.
You now have full system access as root.

If this does not work with SGI's unix, you can still use John, but it may
take a long time to crack the root pw. Like days or even longer.

I could be wrong but I think at least some of this will prove useful.

I did this on a drive with Solaris 2.4 for Sparc.

Regards,

Jeff


In <c9.a856820.274a735d_at_aol.com>, on 11/20/00
   at 02:15 PM, LFessen106_at_aol.com said:

>I posted this earlier but never received any response or a return message
> myself so forgive me if this actually made it to the list and I am
>re-posting........

>Just got 2 SGI Personal Iris's 4D/35's today (Thanks again Tom) and no
>KB, Mouse, monitor for either. Finally got dumb terminal hooked &
>working, and was pleased NOT to find boot password protection,
>HOWEVER....

>1 of them still has a working OS, and the other doesn't. I do not have
>any OS media for them at all, and the one that IS working has (Of
>Course) a root password which I do not have. What I really need here is
>a copy of the installation media here. Pleeeaaaasssee Contact me if you
>can assist in getting these systems running. I believe the 1 with the
>OS problem has the OS, but has no scsi disk label. Perhaps if someone
>were to have a root/boot disk they could copy off for me, I could get
>them working. I believe they run Iris 4.0.somthingorother.

>I am also in the market for an inexpensive KB and mouse combo for at
>least one of these.

>I also got an HP Apollo 9000/715. Seems to work fine but has abscent hdd
>for right now. I hooked it up using my other HP's HPIB KB/Mouse and
>monitor. Problem here is for some reason I can not get a serial console
>to work on this machine. Can't figure out what the heck I am doing
>wrong and was wondering if anyone here knew if I had to set that up in
>the HP's settings to get it to work as it doesn't seem to by default.
>(Before you ask, I tried both a null-modem and a regular cable on this
>on both the rs232 and parallel ports with no luck)

>Also will be looking for inexpensive HPIB KB/Mouse for this..

>Thanks for any help you have to offer.

>-Linc Fessenden

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