Hello, Am Samstag, 14. Januar 2006 01:41 schrieb Rikard Johnels:
I have a old SGI box with an installed IRIX 5.something, that i got for free a while back.
Problem: No root passsword. Only "Guest" account access. Linux cant read the older 5.x XFS system Thus having an unmountable filesystem. So i can't mount it and change the password manually.
Question: Can i somehow find the exact place on any given disc for a file, and hexedit the "device" and thereby changing it? (In this case; the entry for root in /etc/password)
Can you do something similar to init=/bin/bash on boot prompt? Just a wild guess, since I don't know anything about IRIX. Oh, hexediting a filesystem is something I do _not_ recommend ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Hier wird wohl im Moment alles gesiggt, was bei drei nicht auf dem Baum ist. [Thilo Machotta in dag°]