com2kid • 1 day ago

A friend of mine came across an x86 Rhapsody machine, but it was password protected and he wasn't able to ever login. Sadly I believe he wiped it.

Cool alternative history that kinda-sorta ended up coming true.

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Lammy • 1 day ago

In the unlikely event that this happens again, boot to single-user mode by typing `-s` at the `boot:` prompt. Then you can re-mount the filesystem as rw and change root's password:

  fsck -y /dev/hd0a
  mount -w /
  passwd root
  sync
  reboot
Then log in as root at the graphical login prompt and you can use the graphical NetInfo admin tools to list/create/reset regular users.

One can also replace/reset the local NetInfo DB entirely by copying `/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb`, `/usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig`, and `/usr/template/client/etc/hosts` over the files at the same paths minus `/usr/template/client`.