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by neko_koneko 3083 days ago
When I was in similar situation (bought an old SGI O2 box and didn’t had any other SGI machines to plug HDD into to get /etc/passwd), I used telnet RCE/privilege escalation exploit: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20149/, worked like a charm. These old systems have many vulnerable services running by default, including telnet.
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Had some great suggestions, but this one wets my whistle the most, haha!

Probably what I'll do, though, is set up SCSI on a linux box somewhere and try to xxx the shadow, seems to be the smoothest route .. don't wanna mess too much, because after all, 20 years later .. I still wanna boot my old SGI like the good ol' days. :)