On 16 Jun 2006, at 00:02, Graham J Lee wrote:
> On 15/6/06 16:16, David Knight wrote:
>> On 7 Jun 2006, at 18:17, Graham J Lee wrote:
>>> This exists, but I contacted the electricity board who say it has
>>> absolutely nothing to do with us. So it's not my fault if you
>>> use this without a licence and/or Apple sue your behinds,
>> This is much appreciated and you will be glad to know that you
>> protected Apple's interest by securing the image with a root
>> password that we don't know :-)
>
> Resetting the password for an OPENSTEP box has probably been
> covered on this list before.
probably, but a long time ago in a... :-)
don't have access to an xSTEP box right now, but off the top of my
head [or rather from the deep recesses of my memory] you need to:
+ boot single user: -s from the "boot: " prompt
Then you can either:
+ Move aside the existing Netinfo local database and replace with a
default one:
mv /etc/netinfo/local.nidb /etc/netinfo/local.bak
ditto /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb /etc/netinfo/
local.nidb
[NB. I _think_ it's /usr/template/client/.... but it's been a
long time! In fact, I'm surprised I remember this stuff at all! ;->]
Now reboot...
OR
+ Try starting Netinfo by hand from the command-line in single-user
mode; the easy way to do this I seem to remember is simply by doing:
sh /etc/rc (though that can sometimes hang in which case ^C _may_
get you back to the command prompt). Alternatively, you can try
starting up the individual daemons required, but I remember that
there are several and they have to be done in a particular order.
(Maybe Apple still have old docs available for this which you might
be able to Google). Assuming that worked, you can now do: passwd root
> This genuinely isn't my image though; you need to contact Alex
> Horovitz from NeXT^WApple^WWherever he's working these days.
I think David might have missed Graham's subtly comic cultural
reference to "That's Life" (if I'm not mistaken, Graham? You
cultural time-traveller you!) :-)
cheers,
charles
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