On Thursday 08 April 2010 20:45:34 ron minnich wrote: > I have a lenovo x300 somebody set the password on and ... as you guess, > forgot. As Rudof suggested, you can probably use the master password for recovery if it works.
Otherwise I recommend for such situations the cmospwd utility from cgsecurity (also pretty well know for their testdisk utility). As far I used the cmospwd utility it worked like a charm. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd > So, question: anyone have any idea how deep into the machine the > password is kept no new machines? Deep in TPM? I think it's most likely stored in CMOS/EEPROM, but the solutions on that goal varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. > in other words, were flashrom to work on this box, can the password be > reset? Try to use the tool mentioned above, I had until now always success with that. > ron Harald -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
