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Re: Password recovery

Subject: Re: Password recovery
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:51:16 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Zakai Kinan wrote:

Is there a way to recover a password from an old Sun
Sparc10 without a working CDROM drive?  I can't find
anything online that explains a process of doing so.

Pull the hard drive out of your SS10 and mount it in another machine,
mount the root partition on that system and "fix" the etc/passwd there.

Or, netboot the machine. Doesn't necessarily have to be with Solaris
either - I've used the OpenBSD/sparc install image to recover data from
Solaris UFS filesystems.  That happens to be a very lightweight method,
and you have the option of a boot floppy or netboot (which I use all the
time) if you don't have a working CDROM.  I'm sure that small working boot
images exist for NetBSD and Linux as well, just that this is what I'm
familiar with.

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