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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX
- Message-ID: <BtKE8p.5C3@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:19:35 GMT
- References: <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
- >Ok...this is embaressing...we forgot the root password on a seldom used
- >SCO UNIX box. We're trying to figure out how to do a single-user mode
- >boot so that the root password is not required to login.
-
- If you have a set of emergency boot floppies, simply boot from them,
- mount the hard disk's root filesystem, and edit the appropriate files
- of {/etc/passwd,/etc/shadow,/tcb/files/auth/r/root}. If you don't
- have a set of emergency boot floppies, you should be able to make them
- on another SCO machine. Or, in a pinch, you should be able to use the
- N1 and N2 disks.
-
- >SCO wants $100 to tell us the answer
-
- Others will no doubt flame SCO for this, but that's probably a
- legitimate price. If you had called the company I work for, we'd
- charge you $120/hour for Unix phone or onsite support. The reason for
- this is quite simple: while it may be possible to learn to support DOS
- or Windows in a month or so, Unix is much more complicated.
- Experienced and knowledgable support people are more difficult to
- find, take longer to train, and have to be paid more. And, it takes
- more overhead to maintain a Unix support department. SCO has tried to
- get around this to some degree by constructing a database of common
- problems and solutions, then using front-line support people as a
- natural-language interface to this database. It works most of the
- time, but there are still questions that have to be answered by a
- person knowledgable about the OS. $100 for what is probably a
- half-hour or 45-minute job is probably a bit on the high side, but
- still reasonable.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't make backups. Real men never
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | accidentally delete files that they're going
- | to need later.
-