> the shell for that account seems to have been set to /bin/false.

So just FTP in and grab /etc/passwd.  I don't think it uses shadow
passwords.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome at real-time.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:47 PM
> To: linux at scalug.org
> Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG] Re: [SCALUG] [OT] NCR 3400 SVR4 box.
> 
> 
> > Somewhere I have the pin-outs for the serial ports.  Also, 
> I should be
> > able to make "dd" copies of the NCR Unix boot disks I have 
> laying around.
> 	cool. given a crude shell of some sort, I can read the 
> root password
> hash and probably brute-force it in a couple of days 
> (especially when my
> 1.1GHz Thunderbird arrives); since I'm sure it's just crypt()'ed.
> 
> 	I did actually guess the password for the 'sys' account (it was
> still set to password 'sys', probably a factory default); but 
> unfortunately
> the shell for that account seems to have been set to /bin/false.
> 	it did ask me to put in a new password (the old one was 
> overdue for
> a change), and it required that it be at least 6 characters 
> in length and
> contain 2 numbers. 
> 
> > There has been lots of work lately to get MCA SCSI and MCA ethernet
> > drivers working under Linux so it might be possible to get 
> linux working
> > nicely with it.
> 	well, Alan Cox has been working on it, at least. 
> 
> > Um, after you've had your way with it...  Interested in 
> getting rid of it?
> > :)
> 	probably not. if nothing else, I'll make a display case 
> out of it or
> something like that. I don't think it's big enough to make 
> into a wet bar.
> :) (cf. the 'vaxbar')
> 
> 	I wonder if an ATX board could be made to fit well?
> 
> Carl.
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