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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!160.45.4.4!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to mount SCO hard drives? Date: 18 Jan 1997 11:27:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5bqc25$nlq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5b0mvs$ng2$1@jupiter.mcs.net> <01bbfe0a$17e91560$f4306dc2@beheerder> <5b33fu$aft$1@jupiter.mcs.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34182 bill@MCS.COM (Bill) wrote: > I only have the drives. It will boot up SCO but it goes directly into a > menu that we can't break out of to get to a shell and noone can remember the > root password. It's a really old machine. You could dig up the encrypted root password in the pile of bits by reading the raw disk, and edit it to a known one. Since all DES-encrypted passwords have a constant length, it should be simple to replace one by another. bpatch (from the ports collection) comes handy for this kind of editing since it can read and edit disks 256 bytes at a time. All other hex editors try to suck the entire file into memory first. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)