> the shell for that account seems to have been set to /bin/false. So just FTP in and grab /etc/passwd. I don't think it uses shadow passwords. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome at real-time.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:47 PM > To: linux at scalug.org > Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Re: [SCALUG] [OT] NCR 3400 SVR4 box. > > > > Somewhere I have the pin-outs for the serial ports. Also, > I should be > > able to make "dd" copies of the NCR Unix boot disks I have > laying around. > cool. given a crude shell of some sort, I can read the > root password > hash and probably brute-force it in a couple of days > (especially when my > 1.1GHz Thunderbird arrives); since I'm sure it's just crypt()'ed. > > I did actually guess the password for the 'sys' account (it was > still set to password 'sys', probably a factory default); but > unfortunately > the shell for that account seems to have been set to /bin/false. > it did ask me to put in a new password (the old one was > overdue for > a change), and it required that it be at least 6 characters > in length and > contain 2 numbers. > > > There has been lots of work lately to get MCA SCSI and MCA ethernet > > drivers working under Linux so it might be possible to get > linux working > > nicely with it. > well, Alan Cox has been working on it, at least. > > > Um, after you've had your way with it... Interested in > getting rid of it? > > :) > probably not. if nothing else, I'll make a display case > out of it or > something like that. I don't think it's big enough to make > into a wet bar. > :) (cf. the 'vaxbar') > > I wonder if an ATX board could be made to fit well? > > Carl. > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >