[rescue] $219 Octanes

[kamakazi]

On 22 Aug 2002 20:57:35 -0500
Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:

> Yup, that's how i got into my indigo2 and my o2 (and likely soon my
> Onyx, i just got the power cable today!*).  usually, the lp account
> has no password.  once i logged in as lp, i copied the encryped
> password over to another machine, and used john the ripper (a password
> cracking utility) to get the actual password.  It took my 650mhz
> athlon five minutes to crack the password for the indigo2, and a
> couple of days to crack the password for the o2.

gee, I guess I did it the hard way.  On my Indy I booted from a 5.3
install CD and whacked the password in the password file, then logged in
as root and set the password.  I don't remember how I did my I2, but it
obviously wasn't much more significant or I would have remembered.

Tim