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From: frank@hpwrce.HP.COM (Frank Stutzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: How can I give users root-like privs. w/o the passwd ?
Message-ID: <7870010@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 16:20:09 GMT
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> 	Also, on an unrelated topic, I have a user that wants to boot a SUN386i
> from his HP workstation.  (Using the HP as the server).  Do you think this can
> be done, I din't think so, but I thought I'd give it a whirle.  (He wants to
> use a HP9000s300 model 370, running HP-UX 6.5 for the cluster server, and the 
> SUN386i as a cnode)

Since everyone else has addressed your priviliges question, I'll answer this 
one.

In short, there's not a wisper of a chance of booting your 386i off of the 
9000.

HP and Sun use radically different diskless schemes.  The 300s that can boot
diskless (virtually every model) have a special bootrom that interrogates the
network with a broadcast that is (as I understand it) unique to HP.  In order
to boot the sun off of the HP you would have to have one of thes roms in the 
sun.  Its not very likely you would be able to wedge one in.


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