NCR Tower help : recovering root password

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Wed Sep 18 15:31:00 2002

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, The Wanderer wrote:

>
> You could try to use tftp to get into the machine. AFAIK, tftp was not

That would be a nice idea, but this machine doesn't have an ethernet or
other 'netowork' connection that I can hook up to another machine I own.
It has some sort of sync serial interface, I think, but that doesn't
really help me any.

-- Pat

>
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> >
> > >From the login prompt, it's obviously an NCR Tower XP. And, it looks like
> > the system is booting just fine, I just need to hit a key to get it to
> > show a login: prompt.
> >
> > Now for the problem: I have no idea what any of the passwords are on the
> > machine. Searching comp.os.unisys and comp.os.ncr bring no useful
> > results. The only non-pasworded account on the machine (that I can find so
> > far) seems to be 'startup'. Any ideas on how to 'break in' without an OS
> > install floppy/tape?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > -- Pat
>
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