I have a copy of the process in my stash.... it is findable on the web. I used to wear this funny hat, and used the methoo a few times - even on my cluster at home. It does work. bb
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:13 AM Richard Curtis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > I picked up a microvax 3100 this past weekend from a office that was > > shutting down. > >> I was able to start the system up, it boots up to a login prompt for VMS > > VAX 7.3. > >> I do not have any login info for this machine, is there a procedure i can > > follow to reset a password to an account? > > I beg to differ with HP's recommendation (in their doc set) for > Devin'ssituation. HP's description is meant for customer sites to have a > copyof usernames/passwords to which they can revert for nasty situationssuch > as a corrupted SYSUAF.DAT. *If* this system has the 'alternate'file, it > should have the same problem as the original, of unknownpasswords. What > Devin needs is instructions to break into the system. > I happen to know how to do that (used to work in OpenVMS Engineering).Is that > something that should be discussed here? > Thanks,Dick >
