DUMB VMS!

Um, while I fail to understand why VMS is dumb for not letting you in

the right passwords, I realise that's not very helpful to you. :) Hit the web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2956/data.htm and search for the word "password". It lists the procedure. And at the risk of starting a religious war between the VMS folk and the unix folk, let me say just that VMS and Unix are good at different things. VMS is much much more secure than unix, and has far greater ability to give users *some* privilages without giving them *everything*. This is valuable in some circumstances. Unix probably does get better overall performance for the same hardware because it doesn't have this security overhead, among other things. Hope this helps. -jim > > I do not like this VMS. I like RSX and RT, but not VMS. First of all, > it's running on a 32-bit machine and it isn't UNIX. That's just > offensive. Then, second, it won't let me log in because I don't remember > any of the passwords. I even tried the boot/r5:1 and uafalternate thing, > but it still won't let me type in bogus login info. What a pain. > > If anyone knows how to get around this, please mail me back. I have a > really important file on this silly vax and need to save it on a machine > that I do backups on regularly. Then I'll be free to run NetBSD.

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