SunOS 2.4 Expliot (Re: Old Sparcstations
Frank McConnell
fmc at reanimators.org
Thu Dec 6 21:20:58 CST 2018
On Dec 6, 2018, at 10:39, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
> The Sparcstation 4/330 I reworked the NVRAM chip on….
> I wanted root.
Was there something in the way of you booting single-user?
I am thinking Suns of that era let you into a boot ROM (via BREAK on serial console, or L1+A on Sun keyboard and framebuffer console) from which you could enter a command like "boot -s” which would boot to a single-user shell.
And physical console access is a good place to start for the win. It is less effective than it once was, but remains a good first choice.
-Frank McConnell
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