We've got a NetApp machine at our site (F330, NetApp Release 4.3.1: Wed Jan 21 02:57:32 PST 1998) that we can't log in to. It's up and running fine, and we can use rsh to run commands (like version or exportfs), but if I try to telnet to the box all the passwords I try don't work.
On the system that's controling that particular server (Digital Unix), the etc directory that's mounted from the filer had no password file in it, and even after copying the passwd file from another NetApp box into the etc directory I'm still unable to get in.
Do I need to reboot the filer, or is there some magic I can perform to set the password? There doesn't appear to be a passwd command, and checking the options command doesn't show anything that looks like it might apply....
Thanks in advance, -Mike
"Michael Steeves [ext 364]" wrote:
We've got a NetApp machine at our site (F330, NetApp Release 4.3.1: Wed Jan 21 02:57:32 PST 1998) that we can't log in to. It's up and running fine, and we can use rsh to run commands (like version or exportfs), but if I try to telnet to the box all the passwords I try don't work.
On the system that's controling that particular server (Digital Unix), the etc directory that's mounted from the filer had no password file in it, and even after copying the passwd file from another NetApp box into the etc directory I'm still unable to get in.
The password it is looking for is not stored in the password file, so that won't work ;(
Do I need to reboot the filer, or is there some magic I can perform to set the password? There doesn't appear to be a passwd command, and checking the options command doesn't show anything that looks like it might apply....
The only way to recover is to boot from floppies, and that is one of the 5 items on the menu... Since you are going to do that anyway, you may as well upgrade, since the release you are using is not Y2K compliant.
In previous mail, Michael Steeves [ext 364] sez...
We've got a NetApp machine at our site (F330, NetApp Release 4.3.1: Wed Jan 21 02:57:32 PST 1998) that we can't log in to. It's up and running fine, and we can use rsh to run commands (like version or exportfs), but if I try to telnet to the box all the passwords I try don't work.
On the system that's controling that particular server (Digital Unix), the etc directory that's mounted from the filer had no password file in it, and even after copying the passwd file from another NetApp box into the etc directory I'm still unable to get in.
Do I need to reboot the filer, or is there some magic I can perform to set the password? There doesn't appear to be a passwd command, and checking the options command doesn't show anything that looks like it might apply....
rsh -l root your.filers.net.address passwd
I had to do this last week.
John R. Dennison Senior Systems Administrator & Security Administrator WorldWide Access/Verio Chicago
We've got a NetApp machine at our site (F330, NetApp Release 4.3.1: Wed Jan 21 02:57:32 PST 1998) that we can't log in to. It's up and running fine, and we can use rsh to run commands (like version or exportfs), but if I try to telnet to the box all the passwords I try don't work.
On the system that's controling that particular server (Digital Unix), the etc directory that's mounted from the filer had no password file in it, and even after copying the passwd file from another NetApp box into the etc directory I'm still unable to get in.
Do I need to reboot the filer, or is there some magic I can perform to set the password? There doesn't appear to be a passwd command, and checking the options command doesn't show anything that looks like it might apply....
rsh -l root your.filers.net.address passwd
I had to do this last week.
The only problem with this is that it assumes you know the current password. That doesn't appear to be the case for the situation above. Without knowing the password, the only way to change it is with the boot floppy.
---------------------------------------- Lee Razo (lrazo@netapp.com) Network Appliance, Inc. Santa Clara, Ca. http://www.netapp.com/ "Ai! Muerte en Ingles!" -Homer Simpson (Spanish overdub) ----------------------------------------
"John R. Dennison" wrote:
Do I need to reboot the filer, or is there some magic I can perform to set the password? There doesn't appear to be a passwd command, and checking the options command doesn't show anything that looks like it might apply....
rsh -l root your.filers.net.address passwd
Hmm, this is what I thought of at first, but when I tried it in the lab, it did not work. I did get it to work (sort of) bye doing #rsh filer rc_toggle_basic; passwd . I say sort of, because the new password does not work. The machine I am using is running is 5.2.2 . What version is the filer that this worked on running? Also, Mike, what version is your machine running?
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jerry Talkington wrote:
I did get it to work (sort of) bye doing #rsh filer rc_toggle_basic; passwd. I say sort of, because the new password does not work.
Did you happen to do
rsh filer rc_toggle_basic; passwd
or
rsh filer 'rc_toggle_basic; passwd'
or
rsh filer "rc_toggle_basic; passwd"
If you did the latter 2 you're OK, if you did the initial one you succeeded in changing the password on the box you were rshelling from. No wonder the new password doesn't work on the filer. ;)
Tom
tkaczma@gryf.net wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jerry Talkington wrote:
I did get it to work (sort of) bye doing #rsh filer rc_toggle_basic; passwd. I say sort of, because the new password does not work.
Did you happen to do
rsh filer rc_toggle_basic; passwd
or
rsh filer 'rc_toggle_basic; passwd'
or
rsh filer "rc_toggle_basic; passwd"
If you did the latter 2 you're OK, if you did the initial one you succeeded in changing the password on the box you were rshelling from. No wonder the new password doesn't work on the filer. ;)
Tom
Umm, yeah. Duh. I did end up changing the root password on my local machine ;) So, I stand by my original statement, get the boot floppies...
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