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Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by Aloha on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:46PM (#16074357)
Boot from a CD, mount the drive, change the password or remove it - if it were linux I'd edit /etc/shadow - obviously easier with another IRIX machine to put the drive into.
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