I just acquired an early mono NeXTstation from forum member wiskinator (thanks again).
It's got a 406 MB Seagate drive & a whopping 8 MB of ram! Running NeXTStep 3.0.
I was able to hack my way into the system using the "Lost root Password'
procedure, but I can't figure out (remember) how to reset the unknown password for the user "me" account.
Anyone know the secret handshake? Thanks.
By the way, this machine has a copy of Mathematica 2.0 (which I don't know how to use) along with copies of Adobe Illustrator, Improv, and something called GreyBoard (which I'd not seen before) "a network conferencing version of the Draw program."
Also included is an original box for the MegaPixal Display with a $682.00 price tag from the Stanford University Bookstore (carton 6 of 23 cartons!).
James
To reset the user password you may try this:
rm -rf /etc/netinfo /etc/hostconfig
cd /usr/template/client/etc
cp -rp netinfo /etc
cp hostconfig /etc
reboot
This will also reset your network settings! I am not sure how to just reset user passwords. It may work, if you only reset "hostconfig", but i did not try it myself.
I don't know if this was the "proper" way to accomplish this, but I used NetInfoManager to delete the password for user "me" which allowed me to log into the "me" account without a password and then set my own password.
Seems to have done the trick.
James
Quote from: "jheis"I don't know if this was the "proper" way to accomplish this, but I used NetInfoManager to delete the password for user "me" which allowed me to log into the "me" account without a password and then set my own password.
That should be correct. I think running 'passwd' as root specifying a specific user would have done it as well.