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Howto regain root access (lost password) on floppyless thinclient?

Asked by fax in Linux Network Security

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Hi everybody!

I recently bought a 3rd or 4th hand Neoware Eon Preferred 2000e Thinclient on the internet. One of the previous owners set a root password that nobody remembers. This means that I can boot the linux that resides on a disk-on-chip and use the terminal functions, but I cannot even adjust the screen resolution. I would like to try to find the root password by swiping the password and shadow files, and do a brute force on another (fast) machine. [The thinclient itsself has a national geode 300 mhz processor roughly equivalent of a pentium 166 mmx or so, so I have to get the files off of the machine, to have a chance to find the pw in my lifetime :-)]
A lot of tutorials on the internet tell me to boot from a floppy and copy the password and shadow files from the harddisk. Well I run into two problems: First I have no floppydrive, only an IDE connection. Secondly I have no "original" harddisk, since the OS resides on a chip.
The second problem I might be able to handle, once I get a working OS I can mount the chip using drivers I found on the internet.
So that leaves me with the first problem: How do I get a working OS on a hard disk that I then connect to the IDE port of the thinclient to boot from?
Can I use rawrite to write bootfloppy images to a harddisk? Does anyone have any ideas?
And after that, will I be able to copy the password / shadow files to the HD, mount it in another machine, and do brute force?Start Free Trial
 
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