05-01-2007
Get out the tools
The boot and filesystem floppies can only be made on the machine that you wish to boot. The boot diskette has to know which disk controller you are using and the way that the hard disk is partitioned.
The disk that you can download is only the installation disk, there is no way to get a shell from it.
Build another machine with a disk controller card that is compatible with the disk drive that you want to get the files from, and then add the old disk as a second drive in the new machine.
When you add the second drive be very careful not to change any partition sizes of accidently format the drive.
If the data is mission crititcal, use Symantec Ghost to duplicate the drive first.
The new machine can have any version of SCO on it.
Another method which might work is to look in the startup scripts (files in /etc/rc2.d, or /etc/rc.d for files that have been installed there with incorrect permissions that you can write to. Then add code to one of these to either replace /etc/shadow with one where you know the root password, or just change the permissions on the files you need. Then reboot.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
dialups
dialups(4) File Formats dialups(4)
NAME
dialups - list of terminal devices requiring a dial-up password
SYNOPSIS
/etc/dialups
DESCRIPTION
dialups is an ASCII file which contains a list of terminal devices that require a dial-up password. A dial-up password is an additional
password required of users who access the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The correct password must be entered before the user
is granted access to the computer. The set of ports that require a dial-up password are listed in the dialups file.
Each entry in the dialups file is a single line of the form:
terminal-device
where
terminal-device The full path name of the terminal device that will require a dial-up password for users accessing the computer
through a modem or dial-up port.
The dialups file should be owned by the root user and the root group. The file should have read and write permissions for the owner (root)
only.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample dialups file.
Here is a sample dialups file:
/dev/term/a
/dev/term/b
/dev/term/c
FILES
/etc/d_passwd dial-up password file
/etc/dialups list of dial-up ports requiring dial-up passwords
SEE ALSO
d_passwd(4)
SunOS 5.10 4 May 1994 dialups(4)