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posted by [identity profile] lonebear.livejournal.com at 01:09am on 2005-10-21
i have an external caddy drive that i am told is sun. will trade you use of it for you getting my sparcstation running :)

it just needs the root password reset.
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Resetting password

posted by [identity profile] unix-vicky.livejournal.com at 01:29am on 2005-10-21
What kind of sparcstation do you have (it doesn't make a difference, I'm just curious)? What OS is it running? Generally speaking, the way to do it is to boot into "single user mode". To do so, issue the command "boot -s" from the ROM prompt. Sometimes that will drop you into a root shell without prompting you for a password. If so, just edit /etc/passwd, and remove the password field for root. Then you can use the passwd command to set it to what you want. If it still prompts you for a password, then the procedure depends on what OS you have (but could be as simple as reinstalling if there's nothing on the machine you need).
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Re: Resetting password

posted by [identity profile] lonebear.livejournal.com at 03:49am on 2005-10-21
It's a sparcstation 2, i got it and promptly lost the password.
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