I've lost the root password of our filer. I've read in the SA Guide that I can change it by booting from a diskete. However, the filer is up and running. How can I reboot it in a safe manner having no access to its command line (short of powering it down)?
If you still have rsh access from one or more admin hosts, you can probably 'rsh filername reboot' even if you can't telnet in directly.
First off, the simplest thing is that you don't need to power it off cleanly. I can't take any of mine down right now, but doesn't a halt or reboot still replay the wafl log on reboot (ie, doesn't force it to flush)?
In either case, even if you don't have rsh access, hopefully you still have an admin host.. do a 'showmount -e toaster' and see who /vol/vol0 is exported to, and give it a shot from there.. ..Then just edit hosts.equiv and give yourself whatever rsh access you need.
(where does a filer store passwords, anyways?)
..kg..