Here is mine http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=652 On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 5/8/2017 11:35 AM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The machine boots into UNIX. You can login as root with no pswd, add or change the password for root or any of the other 4 user accts on the machine. When you logout, it then boots directly into NextStep. Problem was the pswds from UNIX didn't translate to the nextstep login.
Adam found a forum thread that gave the proper procedure for setting the NextStep login and password (since we had root access already it was not difficult once he knew what to do)
Now we just need to figure how to switch the boot process so it loads directly into NextStep instead of having to log into and then out of the command line to get NextStep to boot. It works, we just want it to work with fewer steps now. We simply ran out of time to go further.
If I missed any steps I'm sure Adam will fill them in but that's pretty much where things stand now and roughly how we got there.
Yeah, it is like nothing I have ever seen.
It boots into what looks like single user mode (# prompt). All attempts to find a command to start the NeXTStep GUI failed (ala startx) and no help could be found on any forums. Eventually, on a lark, I tried typing login... which asked for a username.
OK, we're home free, I thought. So I type in root and it logs me in as root (without a password).. to the command line. Doh! Foiled again! I then type exit to get back where I was and oddly the GUI boots.
So the act of *exiting* the login starts the NeXTStep GUI. Leaving me rather perplexed about how to automate booting straight into NeXTStep.
Getting the password was a matter of booting into single user mode, loading the NeXT password subsystem and *then* typing passwd at the commandline. Evan already posted the URL with graphic details. Just in case anyone else happens to run into a NeXT!
Best wishes,
-Adam