That would work -- you'd have to change at least two entries since you
would hit a password in /etc/security/passwd and /etc/security/opasswd and
probably would not know for sure which one you hit...
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
>
> If the internal disk is SCSI, you could attach it to any other system
> (for example Linux), and write a utility that goes through the raw
> disk looking for 'root:\([^:]*\):0:0:' and replace it with 'root::0:0:\1'
> (excuse the RE fun, replace the encrypted password with an empty
> string, and pad it out the the same length). If you search the
> entire disk, the will take care of shadow passwords also... I recently
> did this to a Sun system, with only minor pain...
>
> Clint
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Paul Thompson wrote:
>
> >
> > I believe that that maintenance mode still asks for the root password.
> > The tape/cd/diskette maintenance doesn't.
> >
> > If you had another RS6k you can probably import the disk from the other
> > and remove or change the root password on the lost root box. You would
> > need to expend some effort to get the lvol names back to what AIX expects
> > for a system disk since the import will change the names of the logical
> > volumes on the lost disk to not conflict with the host machine.
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Bob Purdon - Lists wrote:
> >
> > > I vaguely remember that the RS6000 machines could be booted into a
> > > maintenance mode through use of the keyswitch on the front. It's been a
> > > long while though, and I'm not sure whether all the models had the
> > > keyswitch (the 500 & 900 series certainly did).
> > >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
>
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