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I forgot root password on my old IRIX / SGI Octane2 and had to "crack" it a few months ago. Turned out it was using full eight characters and was on the tail-en
by Keyframe 10y ago
I forgot root password on my old IRIX / SGI Octane2 and had to "crack" it a few months ago. Turned out it was using full eight characters and was on the tail-end of the alphabet. It took less than a day to guess it on an older two-gpu 680GTX machine with cudaHashcat. Also, how awesome of IRIX guys was to not allow more than 8 characters in a password?
- DanBC 10y agoThe 8 char limit was common on *nix. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179649/are-passwords-on-modern-unix-linux-systems-still-limited-to-8-characters http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179649/are-passwords-on-... Some of the answers on that page suggest it changed around 2000, and SGI Octane 2 was still being sold in 2004(?), but I don't know how rapidly systems changed.
- bluedino 10y agoIf it was IRIX it might have been faster to run some old exploit and then reset it
- Keyframe 10y agoI looked at one where you would twiddle the bytes on filesystem, but this was easier. Fire and forget until the results are in.