[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] How to compile plain MPlayer on Mac OSX

[Ivo]

On Monday 26 June 2006 23:26, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks to IBM, I got a PowerMac with OSX and Linux on it[1]
[..]
> [1] - though for some reason I can't log on the Linux system as I've
> not been given the possibility to create a user account, so I'm pretty
> much stuck at login stage.... I know, I suck! ;-)

If you have physical access to the box, it's pretty easy to "hack" into it. 
I suppose there's some kind of boot-loader on it. With lilo you could boot 
linux with <imagename> init=/bin/bash or something to that effect and boot 
into a rootshell. Remount / read-write with mount -o remount,rw / and add a 
user/edit the root password in /etc/shadow. If you are not able to specify 
init at boottime, you could also remove the harddisk, physically mount it 
in some PC and mount the root partition. Edit /etc/shadow (empty root 
password), shutdown, move the thing back to the powermac, boot linux, login 
as root, set password, et cetera...

HTH :)
--Ivo