Minifridge

[heviarti at puresimplicity.net]

Well, I was talking to someone on #alpha on freenode.  He and I did some work on it. I've wasted the root pass, determined the version (Digital UNIX 4.0F), and gotten root remounted rw. Won't boot multiuser... Kernel panics when it tries to mount /usr can't see the text of the panic, it flips by too fast.

-----Original Message-----

From:  John Halewood <john at unidec.co.uk>
Subj:  RE: Minifridge
Date:  Mon Aug 23, 2010 16:07
Size:  1K
To:  "'Linux on Alpha processors'" <axp-list at redhat.com>

>   Do look at your notes. Right now I'm also ro. I'm not sure if mount -
> o remount rw / is the right syntax for mount on that flavor.

mount -u /, or /sbin/mountroot, depending on the age of the system.

 
>   Also p* (enter) at a prompt results in passwd: not found   which is
> wierd seeing as I can't find a binary called passwd anywhere.

That's bash with extensions - you're on tru64 so it's csh. Try /bin/passwd or /sbin/passwd, although I have a feeling that passwd lives in /usr on tru64. To find out the OS uname should do the trick. Failing that cat /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow and see what's there. Took an old Ultrix system apart using that method- no one could remember the original passwords, but took the password file and threw it at a password cracker (john the ripper IIRC) and it got it in a few hours. Unless, as previously noted, it's got C2 security enabled.

Cheers
John


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