[GLLUG] root passwd recovery AIX 3

[Caleb Cushing]

I'm trying to get him to join the conversation. he mentioned using it for a
web server... I don't really know. Knowing him... He turned his computer
into a space heater once so who know's... Prolly just to prove he can.

On 3/15/06, Christian J. Patterson IBMCATE <captain_blie at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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 lin! ux, 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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