Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: login & password
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users login & password Post 38885 by Perderabo on Tuesday 29th of July 2003 03:26:44 PM
Old 07-29-2003
Because the installation of an operating system has nothing at all to do with what, if anything, may be on the hard disk.

Your hard disk could be factory fresh with absolutely nothing on it at all and you should be able to install windows. That actually happens all the time.

If you are looking at a login screen that was painted by your unix that is sitting on your hard drive, then you simply have booted from that hard drive rather than booting from the cd.

I would guess that you attempted to boot from the cd, had some problem, and so you booted from the hard drive instead. But that is only a guess.

If you find a windows expert who can install windows, I promise you that he will not the help of a unix expert to overwrite your old unix installation.

Also, what do you think you might do if you logged on to the unix system? Do you think that you will find a unix command to overlay unix with windows?
 

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. IP Networking

root login password

Hello Guys, We are using Sco Unix 5.0 While we was changing root password from scoadmin, It did not change the password and hang in between. Now, I am unable to login as root user pls. do suggest me how can i skip root password and how can i goto root to change the password again. Or if... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: subho77
4 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

login password....

i forgot my login password,in solaris 9 how to get it. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: venkatramana
1 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

login without password

is it possible to login into root user or any user in fact and the system wouldnt prompt u for a password ..ala windows style of login (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: tarunicon
6 Replies

4. Solaris

SSH Password-less login fails on password expiry.

Hi Gurus I have a few Sol 5.9 servers and i have enabled password less authentication between them for my user ID. Often i have found that when my password has expired,the login fails. Resetting my password reenables the keys. Do i need to do something to avoid this scenario or is this... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Renjesh
2 Replies

5. Solaris

How to prompt for the new password during the first login

Hi All, I have created a new user. Using the below command I have created the user successfully. useradd -c "Test user" -d /tmp/test -g Testgroup -s /bin/ksh -u 601 Test I don't want to set the password using “passwd” command after creating a user. I want to prompt for the new... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kalpeer
2 Replies

6. Solaris

Direct login without password

Hi, I am trying to setup direct login from server test1 (Solaris 10) to server test2 (Solaris 9) using id taops (ldap id). Process Followed on Test 2. created .rhosts file in home directory of user taops geneted public key on test1 and appended to authorized keys on test2. Now trying... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: tuxian
8 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Password less login for sftp

Hi, I am using public key authentication for login into a remote sftp server (password less login). so i have set up a password less login according to this link . i have copied the content of my .pub file to remote server's authorized_keys2 file. i want to find out whether my .pub file... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Little
2 Replies

8. Solaris

Change Password on First Login

Hi there, Is there a way to ask the solaris user to change passwordo n the first login. I am looking at how to do this for every single new user. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: alvinoo
5 Replies
hdio(7I)							  Ioctl Requests							  hdio(7I)

NAME
hdio - SMD and IPI disk control operations SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/hdio.h> DESCRIPTION
Note - The SMC and IPI drivers have been discontinued. dkio(7I) is now the preferred method for retrieving disk information. The SMD and IPI disk drivers supplied with this release support a set of ioctl(2) requests for diagnostics and bad sector information. Basic to these ioctl() requests are the definitions in <sys/hdio.h>. IOCTLS
HDKIOCGTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() gets specific information from the hard disk. HDKIOCSTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() sets specific information about the hard disk. /* * Used for drive info */ struct hdk_type { ushort_t hdkt_hsect; /* hard sector count (read only) */ ushort_t hdkt_promrev; /* prom revision (read only) */ uchar_t hdkt_drtype; /* drive type (ctlr specific) */ uchar_t hdkt_drstat; /* drive status (ctlr specific, ro) */ }; HDKIOCGBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to get the bad sector map from the disk. HDKIOCSBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to set the bad sector map on the disk. /* * Used for bad sector map */ struct hdk_badmap { caddr_t hdkb_bufaddr; /* address of user's map buffer */ }; HDKIOCGDIAG The argument is a pointer to a hdk_diag structure (described below). This ioctl() gets the most recent command that failed along with the sector and error number from the hard disk. /* * Used for disk diagnostics */ struct hdk_diag { ushort_t hdkd_errcmd; /* most recent command in error */ daddr_t hdkd_errsect; /* most recent sector in error */ uchar_t hdkd_errno; /* most recent error number */ uchar_t hdkd_severe; /* severity of most recent error */ }; SEE ALSO
ioctl(2), dkio(7I) SunOS 5.10 13 Aug 2002 hdio(7I)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:28 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy