a) The passwd is not known whether it is root or prom.
b)To copy /etc/shadow from CDROM, i need to boot from
it and thats when passwd is required.
Like a chicken-and-egg story.
Raghu
--- Rick Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sometimes, not always, the root password is the prom
> password...
> you could try and copy the /etc/shadow entry for
> root's account and see if
> john-the-ripper or crack will break the password and
> then try that. rf.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> ragu nandan
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Off the topic: How to break PROM passwd
> on Sun
>
>
> Mark
> Unless he gets that far, he can use eeprom.
> To be honest with you, I haven't seen this machine.
> I
> am going by my friend's words. He says as soon as he
> boots up, he is presented with a PROM passwd which
> he
> doesn't know. When he interrupts boot sequence, and
> types at the ok prompt --> boot cdrom or boot disk,
> it
> asks for a passwd.
> I did check out this site earlier. Thx, anyway.
> Ragu
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Various possible solutions that have worked in the
> > past:
> >
> >
> > 1. If you can boot the system and login as root.
> > Type: eeprom
> > security-mode=none
> > 2. Pull the prom chip out of the socket and
> re-seat
> > that should get rid of
> > the password
> > 3. Check out:
> > http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
> >
> >
> > At 10:36 AM 12/28/00 -0800, ragu nandan wrote:
> > >Hi
> > > Other than replacing the PROM chip, are there
> > ways
> > >to break the PROM passwd on a Sparc 5 running
> > Solaris.
> > >The security mode is set to Standard and not
> Full.
> > Thx
> > >Ragu
> > >
> > >
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