Getting ROOT on Indy (last question!)

From: owen_at_bardstown.com <(owen_at_bardstown.com)>
Date: Sun Nov 9 20:26:26 2003

OK, my Indy is now (almost) all working. I need to change the monitor refresh
rate, but I can't do that unless I can log in. I don't have the root pwd either.

Apparently you can't go to single user without the root pwd. I can do just
about anything -- I have a serial console hookup, but no root to go with it :(
I can't get it on a network either... I tried using the setenv command to set
the IP to a local address, but I don't think it works (new to IRIX/SGI, so that
may be way off!)

Anyone have any ideas? I already tried most of the normal ones -- guest, tours,
lp, etc. and found them to be closed! Jeez, just what I need... a security
consious admin!

I have no floppy or CDROM installed on this, nor do I have a SCSI adapter to
mount the drives under linux and do the deed the _simple_ way. I also lack IRIX
media.

Any thoughts? I don't want to buy many more components... but I guess that if I
have to, I can make a few more purchases...

Thanks!

Owen
Received on Sun Nov 09 2003 - 20:26:26 GMT