NCR Tower help : recovering root password

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Wed Sep 18 15:48:00 2002

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Patrick Rigney wrote:

> Pat, many older *nix's allow you boot into single user mode without a
> password, giving you a shell prompt on the system console. At that point,
> /etc is probably mounted as part of /. You should be able to change or
> surgically remove the password with passwd|ed|vi. If it has a boot prompt
> on the way up, try entering "-s" or hitting "?". --Patrick

No luck there, either. It boots up into single user mode, with no
prompts, and then gives a "login:" prompt. At that point, you enter
'startup' to get it to go into multiuser mode, which (I'm guessing) brings
up all of the other terminal logins. When I get some time (maybe not for
another week or so) I'll try probing all the other terminal ports to see
if there's anything other than a login prompt on them.

Once I'm in, I pretty much know how to get around and change the password,
but it's the 'getting in' part that has me stumped at the moment.

-- Pat
Received on Wed Sep 18 2002 - 15:48:00 BST