13 Oct
2001
13 Oct
'01
3:12 p.m.
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
If the internal disk is SCSI, you could attach it to
any other system
(for example Linux), and write a utility that goes through the raw
disk looking for 'root:\([^:]*\):0:0:' and replace it with 'root::0:0:\1'
Good suggestion. Note that AIX (at least it's current versions) places the
encrypted password in /etc/security/passwd. The general file format is
"<keyword> = <value>". What you want to do is replace all
"password ="
entries which have a password defined with your own encrypted password.
-Hans
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