RS6000 7012-320H

From: Claude.W <claudew_at_videotron.ca>
Date: Sat Oct 13 02:19:08 2001

Hi

Wait, I think booting with the floppy diag disks will get you in there....

If I remember correctly, thats how I did it with mine, but I dont remember
all...

I still have the images somewhere around here...

Claude


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans H?bner" <hans_at_Huebner.ORG>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: RS6000 7012-320H


> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
>
> > 4) the login msg reads something like
> > IBM AIX version 3 RS6000 (C) 1989, 1990
> > Console Login:
> >
> > How do I get inside?
>
> You'll have to resort to trial and error. There is no way to boot the
machine
> into a single user shell without an external boot device (and this will be
> hard to find, as detailed in earlier messages).
>
> You can also try to get into the machine through the network. I once
managed
> to do this by faking a NIS server and serving a root account through NIS,
but
> I was lucky because NIS was enabled on the machine (a RS6k/340H running
AIX
> 3.2.1). Connect the box to a network and use tcpdump to see whether it
has
> any network services running which you might exploit.
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
> --
> finger hans_at_huebner.org for details
>
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