You can boot from an AIX install CD and go into maintenance mode and change
the root password - as in just about all *NIXs.
Run "diag" from the root account once you're in and discover what's installed
in your system. (IBM typically used SE HDD in RS/6000). Then go to IBM's
website, locate the sales manual for your RS/6000 (they have them going back
for many years) and use the FRUs you discovered in "diag" to find the
specifications of the FRUs in the Sale Manual.
Lyle
On Sunday 13 February 2005 05:59, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Just had one of these show up at the museum; looks healthy (running AIX
> 4) but of course we don't know the root password.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Does the system have a notion of a operator's console which'll bypass
> root password security? (I seriously doubt it, that seems to have gone
> out with the ark...)
>
> 2) Can someone confirm that the disks are single-ended SCSI and not some
> differential crap? Linux supports AIX's filesystem (although I'm not
> sure about the partition table) so an edit that way might be possible
> (or worse-case a manual disk block edit). The drives in the machine are
> covered in barcodes but nothing by way of a model number for me to look
> them up!
>
> ta
>
> Jules
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
Received on Sun Feb 13 2005 - 08:09:25 GMT