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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!alchemy!prisma!fred
- From: fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman)
- Subject: Re: HP 9000/370, no root password!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.173305.16155@cv.ruu.nl>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:33:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.022529.7176@mccc.edu>
- Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group
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- In <1992Aug15.022529.7176@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
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- >A neighboring university has asked to donate to us a couple of
- >HP9000/370 workstations, but the root password is not known.
- >
- >If we accept these, what can be done to gain superuser status?
-
- If you get the machines with media an manuals you can simply reinstall
- the OS. An other possibility is mounting the disks (by physically moving
- them) on another HP, and simple remove the root password by editing the
- password file.
-
- >Oh, and -- what *is* a 9000/370, anyway?
-
- That is the top model in de 68030 line.
-
- Fred
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