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Help! Need root password

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From: Douglas Garstang
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 00:00
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	Hello. I have a small problem!

	We have an old(ish) Sun workstation at work. I'm not quite sure
	what particular model it is. 

	We've lost the root password. Its been sitting on my desk now for
	quite a while collecting dust and I'd like to somehow fix this. I
	know its operational because when I first started I saw it 
	working. Its just a matter of obtaining root access.

	Our development section upstairs managed to rumage around and
	find Solaris on CD which when booted caused some sort of kernel
	panic... Is Solaris a tad bit of overkill? It has SunOS 5.xx on
	it at the moment.

	Is the operating system copyrighted? I imagine it is? I also
	therefore imagine that trying to obtain a boot disk would be
	unlawful if not from Sun Microsystems? All I need is a boot disk
	so I can boot the thing and reset the root password! I'm pretty
	proficient with Linux.

	Does anyone have any suggestions? Reply to email please.

	rainbow@zipper.zip.com.au - Thanks. :)


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From: rainbow@zip.com.au (Douglas Garstang)
Subject: Help! Need root password
Date: 1996/05/27
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