20 Dec
1997
20 Dec
'97
3:45 a.m.
John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
Well it's been awhile and things have slow. One of my finds yesterday was
AT&T UNIX PC with KB and mouse. Unit powers up find but then wants a logon
id and password, I got the unit at Goodwill for $30 so no manuals or other
information about it. My question is to anyone out there is there a way to
break this protection so that I can get to the harddrive ? This week I
Check out the newsgroup comp.sys.3b1 through Dejanews -- there's a FAQ on
the Unix PC that will give you gagloads of useful data.
First thing to try if you don't have installation media is to try the
login name of "install". 8 times out of 10 it isn't passworded, and that
account can change the root password. (Yes, that particular port of Unix
has _severe_ security holes by default, most of which are easy to fix,
although some of the subtler ones can be tricky -- even if you have the
rare [I don't have it, though at one point I had the source code to the
operating system] networking software, I strongly discourage using this
system as a firewall or even dialup machine).
--
Ward Griffiths
Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie,
that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.