Rod,
If you got the 'VMS User's manual part one' chapter 1.
- Resetting a password is the part you should read.
You have to login on the system console and follow the book.
Rik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Smallwood" <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:41 AM
Subject: VAX 4000-200
Hi
I'm now the lucky owner of a Vax 4000-200.
Apart from a bad TK70 drive (which I can get repaired in the UK )
Its fully working with 3 x RF 500Mb Drives (Two in a separate BA215
box) It boots VMS 3.2 and loads the network software.
I even have all the license numbers for VMS 3.2, DW-MOTIF,TCPWARE, VAX
CLUSTER & VOLSHAD
What I don't have is the System password. The system was made in 1991
and had been out of use since 1998.00
I would like to preserve it as is, adding a contempory set of periperals
(VT-100, LA-36 and so on)
I don't want to replace the VMS or any of the other software. I have
no option but to try and recover the system password.
I'm not a hacker and have no idea how to go about breaking in. Anybody
out there have any suggestions as to how to get in and recover the
System password?
Rod Smallwood