At 06:12 PM 9/12/01 UTC, Robert G. 'Doc' Savage wrote:
>Does anyone know what native filesystem was used by SCO/Xenix? An
>acquaintance has stumbled onto a system still in production service in
>which the last person who knew the root password has long since left the
>company. He's thinking about pulling the hard drive, mounting it in a
>Linux box, and editing the passwd file (assuming, of course, that the
>system predates shadow passwords). Alternatively, does anyone remember
>how to reboot such a system in what we would call single-user mode so
>the root password can be changed more elegantly?
IIRC, SCO/Xenix, like the later SCO Unix versions, put several filesystems
into one partition. I think the management utility was called "divvy."
That makes it hard to mount under Linux even if you have support for the
filesystem used.
If you have a boot floppy, you might be able to mount that under Linux and
fix the passwd file on it, then use it to boot the Xenix system.
SCO systems usually expect a password before going into single user mode
when booted normally.
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