[Mark Taylor]

I think they have plugged those "man" page security holes now. you can get an rpm from IBM support that gives you root access permanently but you have to accept the terms and conditions. i.e. you wont be supported.

there are a few other ways, scp off the bash binary, then scp it back on into /hmcrbin then just type bash to get a bash shell, then you can set your PATH and su -

or, when the HMC boots, you can catch it at the grub menu and set the grub boot line to <grub boot line> 1 # to go into single user mode as root.

of course, you will be in single user mode so not a lot will be running, but you can use this method to copy logs and other stuff around for when you reboot etc ..


Rgds
Mark Taylor