It wouldn't let me. The os is Solaris 2.4. When I booted single-user I
still had to feed it the root P/W which I didn't have.
I never did get the root PW. Apparently the admin was a conciencious
one. I broke the machine by running Jack on the drive on a Linux
machine, got a few passwords and usernames, then set the prom date way
back. When Solaris booted and I fed it the user's (not root) PW, the
machine bombed to a root prompt with a message something like
(irrational date). It freaked the machine that a user who'd not been
created yet just logged on. I got root that way, changed root pw from
there and on I went.
Regards,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Sokolov
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:18 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Expect to see fewer hard drives.
Jeffrey S. Worley <Technoid(a)30below.com> wrote:
I bought a Sun Sparcstation 4/330 a few years ago.
It's hdd was
intact
and after breaking the password file [...]
Why did you need to do that? Why couldn't you just boot single-user from
the
ROM and get a root shell?
MS