[nintendoeats]

I can understand if this is not something people want to dive into, but I want to be clear that I am only motivated by historical interest. Given that IRIX gave me a warning that the clock had jumped ahead 19 years, I don't think anybody cares much anymore about what's on this drive.

I just obtained an Indigo 2, which came with a working HDD loaded with IRIX 6.2. I am curious what is on it, since that could provide insight into what it was used for (as well as possibly some fun software to play with). Unfortunately the login screen doesn't even provide any account names.

Does anybody have any suggestions of how one might break in? I tried root with the usual lazy passwords (including no password), now I'm wondering if there is anything better than a brute force attack. I'm currently considering extracting the drive from its tray and hooking it up to my Indy to access the files directly, but that wouldn't tell the whole story.

Of course I am going to image this drive regardless, but due to global extenuating circumstances I am unable to access the Linux machine with SCSI I would normally do that with.

Thanks!