Minifridge

[heviarti at puresimplicity.net]

Yeah, and then it boots multi-user, and wants me to login... And seeing as nobody remembers a pass for it, I'm kinda boned. 

  Until I got too teed off at debian, my primary machine was a '164 500 running at 366 for lack of a 50Mhz crystal, with a Sparc 5 110 as a head.  Unfortunately it doesn't want to boot right now, so I have to hook to the debug port to see what it's problem is.  I flashed it to SRM, and that's all I use.  I do know a few SRM commands, including boot, because of that.   I was actually looking around to see if anyone knew about using SRM as a programmer's panel before I moved and no longer had space for the big Alpha. (my EB164 is built into an old PDP rack)  I wish I knew what happened to Motoko-chan, because she was porting Slackware 10 to Alpha and almost had it working.  I'd honestly rather have Slack than debian or anything based on redhat.

   What I don't know is how to get this minifridge into single user so I can defeat the password on the superuser account. Without the root account I'm kinda dead in the water.

  There's a possibility I could attack it via network, but that would require somehow determining it's IP address, which will differ from the IP range on my local network and will consequently not be possible to communicate with directly.  If I could figure out a way to do that, I could break into any of the five SGIs sitting in my storage unit for lack of access. IRIX was never known for security.  It'd be easier to do this to the Alpha via the console than spending a week trying to find a susceptible program, and then exploiting it.