6 Feb
2006
6 Feb
'06
8:59 a.m.
vrs wrote:
If it's XENIX, I have the install floppies. You should be able to boot
from floppy, mount the root partition, and just remove the password from
/mnt/etc/passwd. (They weren't even shadowed in those days.)
Yep, true :)
Yep :-( That or Xenix. Not sure how to get around
that one - I can get
round
passwords on SCSI disks easy enough but I've
got no way of hooking that
ST506/412 drive to anything more modern in order to modify it :(
I wish I could
help but I don't know either. I wonder if anybody has
Linux running on a system with a ST 412 controller and might be able to
hack into the drive and delete/change the password. (My floppies are the pilot units, though, so I am not
eager to part
with them. Maybe I could figure out how to duplicate them.)
Hmm, well I expect Imagedisk on a suitable PC will produce an image of them. I
doubt the systems used anything particularly strange for the disk controller,
so they're probably fairly standard geometry FM or MFM format.
I don't mind doing a fresh install if needs be - although it'd be nice to nose
around the hard disk and see what the machine was used for. At the end of the
day though, having something that works and can be maintained in working
condition is more important! :-)
cheers
Jules