Re: Minifridge

 On 08/22/2010 04:03 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, [email protected] 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
>
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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