Minifridge

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

Well, Hevi,

my notes on hacking C2 passwords are down in Window Rock.  Where I lived and
worked many years.  Now I am at Fort Hall.  GIS means geographic information
system, originally a set of network topology and data base programs running
under a shell called ARC.  

The Alpha was the first box that would ru the topological operations fast
enough to preclude a cup of coffee between the time you hit return and the
time the command finished executing.

jn

---------- Original Message -----------
From: <heviarti at puresimplicity.net>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:14:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Minifridge

> You're in Idaho, how'd you end up with a machine off a Navajo 
> reservation? I'm in Emmett, btw. What is GIS, anyhow?  I'm pretty 
> sure I've got some kind of Ford dealership database on this one. If 
> I can get it to work I might use it to keep track of saw parts and 
> tractor parts, since I've never been able to get SQL to do anything.
> 
>   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.
> 
>   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.
> 
>   My biggest two things right now are to find a way to paginate, get 
> / rw, and determine the OS version.
> 
>  I also want to find some more sleds for this machine, and install 
> more disks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From:  "Dialup Jon Norstog" <thursday at allidaho.com>
> Subj:  Re: Minifridge
> Date:  Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:39
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> To:  Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Hevi, list:
> 
> It was 10 years ago I had to recover a GIS installation with about 
> $200,000 worth of data on it, on a DEC 3000/600 that had been stolen,
>  trashed and abandoned in a trailer in Tuba City AZ.  The machine 
> was full of red sand and had a resident black widow.  It was C-2 
> secure.  It took me months to crack it, but with some help from 
> former DEC guys in Albuquerque, I got it.  It was pretty simple IIRC.
> 
> Let me check my notes, if I still have them, and get back to you on 
> that one.
> 
> jn
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips.org>
> To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:33:33 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Re: Minifridge
> 
> > On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm used to beating my head on a keyboard, not pointee clickee.
> > 
> >  You should be able to manage editing "/etc/passwd", etc. with `mv', 
> > `cat', etc. then. ;)
> > 
> > > When I mounted /usr, the whole thing barfed and crashed. I think it may 
> > > need something else running before I can mount /usr... Which is advfs, 
> > > BTW.
> > 
> >  OK, so that's definitely a Digital Unix of some flavour.  Try 
> > `/sbin/bcheckrc' as someone already suggested.  Note that ${PATH} is 
> > unlikely to include /sbin in the single-user mode shell which is 
> > less than useful -- I find it silly, but that's required for Bourne 
> > shell for some standard conformance I would guess.
> > 
> > > Like I said, I ain't got uname, but even worse I have no passwd and no 
> > > paginator (you know, more?).
> > 
> >  Yes, it is like this with DU -- the root filesystem (if separate -- 
> > that's what you need to check "/etc/fstab" for) is pretty minimal. 
> >  You need to get the system to mount /usr before you proceed.
> > 
> >  Note that if the system's got C2 security enabled then password 
> > information is managed in a database outside "/etc/passwd" and 
> > "/etc/shadow" and you'll have to poke at that database to get the 
> > root password reset.  After over 10 years I don't remember the 
> > details anymore and chances people here may not know them either as 
> > this is considerably away from how Linux does things.
> > 
> >  I suggest you check with a DU/Tru64 mailing list indeed or try 
> > system documentation available online.  It should be much better 
> > than the bits around the SRM console which I always found a little 
> > bit obscure and scattered around.
> > 
> >  Good luck!
> > 
> >   Maciej
> > 
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