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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!nessie!avl
- From: avl@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Owen Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP 9000/370, no root password!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.064054.8484@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 06:40:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.022529.7176@mccc.edu>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- In article <1992Aug15.022529.7176@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
- >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?
-
- I've never done this with a 370, but on 340's you can easily
- interrupt the boot sequence while fsck is being performed and
- get root privileges. An fsck will be performed if the system is
- switched off without using reboot or shutdown: do a sync first,
- if you can, to minimise damage.
-
- Once you have root privileges, you can edit /etc/passwd and reboot.
-
- A. V. Le Blanc
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-