[GLLUG] root passwd recovery AIX 3

[Caleb Cushing]

he wouldn't have a problem upgrading He was thinking of trying to make it
run linux, but he thinks the hardware is to old. which may be true.

On 3/15/06, Christian J. Patterson IBMCATE <captain_blie at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have some old AIX media back to 4.1 but no 3.0 or 3.1. You can boot
> these machines off of Tape, disk or CD. So if you have a tape backup you are
> golden.
>
> From there select perform system maintenance, and select to access the
> disks. Then you can echo in a UID 0 account into the password file and
> reboot and reset the passwd. or use sed/awk etc.
>
> Its easier to do it this way than set up the environment to vi the file.
>
> If you friend is willing to upgrade I can probaly hook you up with some
> AIX 4.1, 4.3, or 5.x media. However 5.x may not run on the older hardware.
>
>
> CJP
>
>
> *Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> unfortunately we do not have the original media, and I belive it uses 5"
> floppies, I'm not sure if it's capable of 3.5" or not. This machine
> belongs to a friend of mine. It w! as given to him. If anyone has an Idea on
> how to get there hands on the original disks... or make them....
>
>
>
> On 3/15/06, Erik Gillespie <erik.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you have the original AIX 3 media you should be able to boot from the
> > media and go into maintenance mode (one of the Unix admins here said it's
> > something like option 3 in the menu that appears).  When you're in you can
> > then just change the password as you would normally.
> >
> > Erik
> >
> > On 3/15/06, Caleb Cushing < xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  anyone know how you would get the root password off an old AIX 3
> > machine? or alter it.
> >
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