Well, in all honesty, the date issue is assumed on my part. The Batt on
the NVRAM on my Sparc was dead. This made me assume that the date was at
fault when I logged on using a particular username. It might have had to
do with faulty permissions or some other issue. I have since replaced the
NVram on the processor board, but that does not mean I can't test for the
fault in Solaris.
It worked for me though, so I have to believe there is something to it.
Regards,
Jeff
In <20001120210811.1875.qmail_at_brouhaha.com>, on 11/20/00
at 04:38 PM, Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com> said:
>Jeff <THETechnoid_at_home.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>The only "Unix" OS I've ever seen keep track of the date a user was
>created was SCO, and it was part of a horrible misfeature that allowed
>the sysadmin to delete a user *permanently*, so that the user name could
>never again be added to the system.
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