Minifridge

Wilson Morris grem1999 at suddenlink.net
Sun Aug 22 22:22:33 UTC 2010


 On 08/22/2010 04:03 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:
>
>>   Well, I'm in. Don't know why -fl s worked now but not before.  It's a 
>> UNIX, but I'm not sure which. There's no uname in single user mode. 
>> Neither is there passwd, vi, or even a paginator. I'll worry about that 
>> on the other list.
>  So what does e.g.:
>
> # mount
>
> say?  Or:
>
> # cat /etc/fstab
>
>>   With all respect to Matt Turner, On the other list I'll find one of 
>> two things: All the same people that are here, or people who've always 
>> had corporate machines, and never pulled one out of a dumpster/junkpile. 
>> Almost every RISC machine I've ever owned has been salvage, and fixed 
>> with components from stuff local PC shops get at auction.  I know many 
>> more people in the Linux community who have done this.  Generally when 
>> you have access to corporate stuff you learn much less about patching 
>> them up after hosing herring and tomato sauce out of 'em.
>  Agreed, common sense applies -- the amount of traffic on this list these 
> days is almost zero, so a couple of messages per month can't seriously 
> hurt anyone.  The Alpha (Linux or otherwise) hacker and user communities 
> have obviously shrunk dramatically (I've been on this list for some 12 
> years now; there used to be actual traffic here) and asking here you have 
> a chance to reach someone who actually still knows the answer.  
> Especially as your problem is one at the boundary between the hardware, 
> the firmware and the OS, and chances are free software hackers are better 
> at such subtleties than corporate sysadmins. ;)
>
>  You've got my fingers crossed! :)
>
>   Maciej
>
> _______________________________________________
> axp-list mailing list
> axp-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list
>
Hi:
I have run passwd from a chrooted cd boot several times; however, if you
can get to single user mode, then you should be able to run passwd and
change the password to some known value from there.

Thanks,
Wilson




More information about the axp-list mailing list