OT: Cobalt Qube... password lost

[John Esak]

I sent a Cobalt Qube out to Tom at Microlite so they could port over
BackupEDGE for us. We use these little Linux cube computers for various
things. It turns out making a backupEDGE with crash recovery for it is not
going to be possible in near future because it uses a software raid for the
two hard drives in it.  Anyway, long story short, when we got the computer
back, it now has a different password on it for "admin"... one that nobody
knows. Since this computer has no monitor port, there is going to be no way
to get back onto this system. It will be essentially destroyed soon if I
can't come up with some way to get to the filesystem and change the
password.  Does anyone know about these things?  It was a company called
Cobalt that got purchased by Sun, then they dumped the line.  I realize it
is essentially dead, but these are really great computers... I hate to lose
it over something as stupid as a screwed up password. I've checked around a
lot on the net... but there doesn't seem to be a way to fix a lost password,
or reload the system on it without same.

Any ideas?

John

P.S. - Tom's people say they did not change the password, but the one from
the original letter I sent with the Qube to them does not work anymore. Any
ideas on how it might have been inadvertently changed would be appreciated,
too. I have, of course, tried ENTER and a few of the other standard things.
Next, I'm going to try "Joshua". :-)