jan-jaap wrote:noth wrote: Linux should be able to mount those XFS partitions and then you can aim john the ripper at the passwd file in last recourse. OS X can't mount XFS partitions.
Not necessarily.
Linux only understands the XFS v2 'on disk' format, the default since ~ IRIX 6.5.14. If these systems shipped from the factory with something older they will have the older on-disk format and Linux will not mount it, even if the Octanes currently run a more recent version of IRIX.
Bingo. Linux also does not properly recognize the IRIX logical volume managers if one of those are in use. Keep in mind that though XFSv2 was the big bump there have also been changes in 5.3+XFS->6.2 and 6.2->6.5, I've never used 6.3 or 6.4, but it wouldn't surprise me if they updated XFS a bit in each release, or at least 6.2 -> 6.(3,4) -> 6.5. XFSv2 was unusual in that it was the first big "intra-major-release" XFS update.
Regarding the comment about one being the "master" - it probably means that there are NFS, floating licenses or NIS services on it. It looks like licensing might have been touched on, but check out /etc/exports to see if there are exported NFS filesystems being served to the other boxes (Network Filesystem).
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