[rescue] SGI Irix / Indy question

[Kevin]

If properly compiled, linux can read EFS and XFS file systems.  Get
to the passwd file or shadow and run it through John.

/KRM

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:45:43 +0100
Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com> wrote:

> brooke wrote:
> > I know I could probably pull the drive, mount it on a box that
> > can read XFS, and edit /etc/passwd. I don't have such a box. I
> > don't even have a bootable IRIX cd.
> 
> That makes it harder. You could put the drive into a PC, and look
> on the raw disk partition for the password file and feed that to a
> password cracker. Or even dd the sector with the encrypted root
> password to a file, edit it to hold a known password, and put it
> back to the disk.
> 
> Walter.
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