update on the SCO mounting hd thing...

[John Esak]

It has an old style of tcb.  In any case, the lack of dealing with the
console was my problem (or Jason's), there was a case statements allowing a
bunch of call center PC's, my office PC, Tim's, Jason's... Etc. At the end
of all these specified machines, there was a:


	*) exit;;

Unbelievable, I know. We simply never logged into the machine with a monitor
and keyboard. It was headless and when it went down, which was never... We
would just press the big RED button and wait for it to come up again. :-)

Two years later this bit me in the ass.  And the funny thing is both Jason
and I *kenw* that niether of us had forgotten the root password.  Do you
know how hard it was to admit that online?  Very galling to sound that
stupid. When it turned out, that it was the right password all the time, at
least a little gratification spilled over the top of the humiliation
fafctor.  

By the way, the symptom was exaqctly like a wrong password. The screen would
blink and present the login again.  Had I just been smart enough to set up
an old temporary LAN with that subnet, I could have logged in through telnet
or rlogin at any time.

Live and learn.

Thanks for your help though, I would have forgotten about chroot and just
edited the shadow file in some known way. It was much easier just using
passwd.

John


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 2:54 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: update on the SCO mounting hd thing...
> 
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010, John Esak wrote:
> >Well, now this is really stupid.  Actually, I had not 
> forgotten my password.
> >And my friend Jason has been saying there is no way the 
> password could have
> >been changed.  It really wasn't. Once I put it to something 
> known... I
> >*still* couldn't login.  The problem there was a conditional 
> "exit" in the
> >/etc/profile to only allow logins from several machines... 
> Period. It did
> >not include the console!!  So, I was just exiting at every 
> login/password
> >combination.  Too wierdc.
> 
> Does SCO have the /etc/securetty file?  I hadn't thought about
> that in years.  Not having the console in it boggles the mind.
> 
> Bill
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