[GLLUG] root passwd recovery AIX 3

[Christian J. Patterson IBMCATE]

What is your friends end goal? To learn AIX, or to do something cool?
  
  If he is trying to learn AIX what he will want is a version of AIX 5.x  and it may or may not run on the old hardware. If you let me know the  hardware he is trying to run on I can let you know what versions of AIX  should run on it. The hardware should be identified by a number like  7128-43p, i.e. nnnn-yyy.
  
  As far as Linux is concerned Yellow Dog has probably the best support for legacy IBM hardware out there.
  
  Keep in mind most of these old boxes are MCA (Micro Chanel) not PCI  based so more modern distributions may not support it either.
  
  All in all sounds like a fun project.
  
  
  CJP

Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote: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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