From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 3 12:28:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nsmail.corp.globalstar.com (gibraltar.globalstar.com [207.88.248.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC98437B71C for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjclark@alum.mit.edu) Received: from alum.mit.edu ([207.88.153.184]) by nsmail.corp.globalstar.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GB8E3I00.30E; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:28:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3ACA2471.A5AF44AD@alum.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:28:49 -0700 From: Crist Clark Organization: Globalstar LP X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Peter Radcliffe Subject: Re: su change? References: <005401c0bc63$7cb36650$0202a8c0@majorzoot> <001f01c0bc68$681a2b20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010403140935.F9618@pir.net> <3ACA12FF.F4000B95@allmaui.com> <3ACA1755.7C98C5@alum.mit.edu> <20010403144240.H9618@pir.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > Crist Clark probably said: > > [misquoted text cut. please learn to quote correctly] The previous poster screwed up the quoting. I am always torn whether the best etiquette is to "fix" it or not. > > If you've put a password in the boot PROM and forgotten that however, you > > are fscked. Time to buy a new chip! > > *sigh* > You don't know when to give up, do you ? > > What does forgetting the prom password on a sparc have to do with your > incorrect comment on screwing up root's password entry on a Solaris > box ? Someone else started talking about booting off of a CDROM which diverted us into the relm of a Sun in OpenBoot. I wanted to point out you can just tell it to boot off the CDROM, so I was expecting someone to mention that you would need a EEPROM password to do that if the security was enabled. I figured I preempt that remark. > Oh, and you're incorrect again. You can remove a lost PROM password > without replacing the PROM, assuming you have physical access which > you'd have to have to replace it. Some are easier than others and the > easier ones depend on other settings in the prom, but it can be done > in several ways. > > The NVRAM FAQ lists some of them; > http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html Ummm... This page says, 7.My Sun is in full-security mode (can't even boot without password) and I don't know the EEPROM password. How do I fix this? (Replace chip) "Replace chip." You know a trick? I'd be curious. I had an admin do this once ('course, with our Sun contract, a tech replaced the chip the same day, no big deal). > Quit wasting time and bandwidth arguing about things you don't know > enough about on inappropriate lists ? I agree this has now gotten inappropriate. Unfortunately, my mailer mutinied when I tried to remove -stable from the list of targets (teach me to wrestle with the mailer at work). I left in -security since I was actually posing a small question about the old C2 spec someone mentioned. This time, I promise to try harder to get the recpients correct. But I am not sure what I do not know enough about. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message