Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:28:49 -0700 From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Subject: Re: su change? Message-ID: <3ACA2471.A5AF44AD@alum.mit.edu> References: <005401c0bc63$7cb36650$0202a8c0@majorzoot> <001f01c0bc68$681a2b20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010403140935.F9618@pir.net> <3ACA12FF.F4000B95@allmaui.com> <3ACA1755.7C98C5@alum.mit.edu> <20010403144240.H9618@pir.net>
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Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > Crist Clark <cjclark@alum.mit.edu> probably said: > > [misquoted text cut. please learn to quote correctly] The previous poster screwed up the quoting. I am always torn whether the best etiquette is to "fix" it or not. > > If you've put a password in the boot PROM and forgotten that however, you > > are fscked. Time to buy a new chip! > > *sigh* > You don't know when to give up, do you ? > > What does forgetting the prom password on a sparc have to do with your > incorrect comment on screwing up root's password entry on a Solaris > box ? Someone else started talking about booting off of a CDROM which diverted us into the relm of a Sun in OpenBoot. I wanted to point out you can just tell it to boot off the CDROM, so I was expecting someone to mention that you would need a EEPROM password to do that if the security was enabled. I figured I preempt that remark. > Oh, and you're incorrect again. You can remove a lost PROM password > without replacing the PROM, assuming you have physical access which > you'd have to have to replace it. Some are easier than others and the > easier ones depend on other settings in the prom, but it can be done > in several ways. > > The NVRAM FAQ lists some of them; > http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html Ummm... This page says, 7.My Sun is in full-security mode (can't even boot without password) and I don't know the EEPROM password. How do I fix this? (Replace chip) "Replace chip." You know a trick? I'd be curious. I had an admin do this once ('course, with our Sun contract, a tech replaced the chip the same day, no big deal). > Quit wasting time and bandwidth arguing about things you don't know > enough about on inappropriate lists ? I agree this has now gotten inappropriate. Unfortunately, my mailer mutinied when I tried to remove -stable from the list of targets (teach me to wrestle with the mailer at work). I left in -security since I was actually posing a small question about the old C2 spec someone mentioned. This time, I promise to try harder to get the recpients correct. But I am not sure what I do not know enough about. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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