[rescue] IBM 6611-170

[Steve Sandau]

I did try dd'ing the first several megs of the disk, then the whole disk
and searching through it. Might not have the right tools for it, but I
couldn't find the passwd file. I was able to clone the disk and make a
second bootable disk, though. 'Course that just gives me another disk
that I don't have any passwords for...

I may try it again with emacs; I was previously using a hex editor...
 
> > The only thing I *don't* have is the root p/w. Bummer. I also don't have
> > another AIX box to mount the drive on and edit the p/w file.
> 
> Mounting... poowf!
> 
>   dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/raw-copy-of-first-20meg count=2k bs=1k
>   emacs ./raw-copy-of-first-20meg
>   dd if=/root/raw-copy-of-first-20meg of=/dev/sdb count=2k bs=1k
> 
> And hope that in that raw amount of data you find the passwd file (I would
> expect to find a couple of versions to reflect the various revisions, so
> remember to overwrite the root passwd hash in all the copies you find).
> 
-- 
Steve Sandau
ssandau at bath.tmac.com