I had the oppurtunity to get into a micro VAX. There is a way there also
that requires physical access and no passwords. But don't ask me because
it was over ten years ago. It drop you into single user mode.
Frank
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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Jeff Corwin wrote:
> > on the otherhand, it's not a huge problem with linux, because linux is
> > ridiculously easy to get into if you have physical access.
> >
> How do other unixes differ in regards to this?
>
> On SGIs, running IRIX, you must enter the root password to boot into
> single user mode. That doesn't prevent someone who has the inital IRIX
> installation CD from booting from it, though, and then mounting the root
> filesystem and changing the root password.
> Jeff
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