<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Jared, sounds like fun!<div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure you can just set the password of root and it will enable the root account.</div><div><br></div><div>So, if the admin user ran this script with the desired password as an argument:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; color: rgb(0, 116, 0); ">#!/usr/bin/expect -f</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; ">set rootpw [lindex $argv <span style="color: #1c00cf">0</span>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">match_max <span style="color: #1c00cf">100000</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; ">spawn passwd root</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; color: rgb(196, 26, 22); "><span style="color: #000000">expect </span>"New password:"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; color: rgb(196, 26, 22); "><span style="color: #000000">send </span>"$rootpw\r"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; color: rgb(196, 26, 22); "><span style="color: #000000">expect </span>"Retype new password:"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; color: rgb(196, 26, 22); "><span style="color: #000000">send </span>"$rootpw\r"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">expect eof</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">O</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">U</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">L</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">D</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">p</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">p</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Example, create a script containing the above code called "enableroot.exp" and then run this:</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>./enableroot.exp ultramegasecret1334p0wneDpasswordgoeshere</b></div><div><br></div><div>Replace that ridiculous pw with yours, of course. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you get stuck; good luck!</div><div>Kerry</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. I've attached the scrip to save you some time. :)</div></div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>