9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
8:39 p.m.
I have a vintage apollo question...
In the late 1980's when HP acquired Apollo Computer Inc, I recall
there was an HP root account, that shipped with every new
machine. In many cases this account was not removed.
I recently acquired a DN3000 and to my amazement it was clean, and
booted to an SR10.4 login prompt. Does anybody remember that HP
account and password? Alternative cracks would be welcomed as well.
Bill Newman
10 Aug
10 Aug
10:07 a.m.
On 08/09/2015 07:39 PM, Bill Newman wrote:
I have a vintage apollo question...
In the late 1980's when HP acquired Apollo Computer Inc, I recall there was
an HP root account, that shipped with every new machine. In many cases
this account was not removed.
I recently acquired a DN3000 and to my amazement it was clean, and booted
to an SR10.4 login prompt. Does anybody remember that HP account and
password? Alternative cracks would be welcomed as well.
Bill,
First try user/<blank>, user/apollo and root/apollo ... failing that
there's some info here about clearing the registry:
http://web.mit.edu/kolya/www/csa-faq.html#4.24
I used to know quite a bit about these machines, but apparently it's all
fallen out of my brain now :/
cheers
Jules
10:22 a.m.
I did a little Googling and some site suggested password "-apollo-" but
unfortunately I don't have one and have never really worked with them so I
can't back that up from personal experience.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Jules Richardson <
jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/09/2015 07:39 PM, Bill Newman wrote:
I have a vintage apollo question...
In the late 1980's when HP acquired Apollo Computer Inc, I recall there
was
an HP root account, that shipped with every new machine. In many cases
this account was not removed.
I recently acquired a DN3000 and to my amazement it was clean, and booted
to an SR10.4 login prompt. Does anybody remember that HP account and
password? Alternative cracks would be welcomed as well.
Bill,
First try user/<blank>, user/apollo and root/apollo ... failing that
there's some info here about clearing the registry:
http://web.mit.edu/kolya/www/csa-faq.html#4.24
I used to know quite a bit about these machines, but apparently it's all
fallen out of my brain now :/
cheers
Jules
11:38 a.m.
Hmmm. Not that I recall. Seems to me that one could boot with the boot
switch in service mode (so it doesn't boot right through to DOMAIN/OS,
though, and you could get a shell, allowing one to use a command-line
editor to edit out the offending password.
If you are still stuck in a couple of days, I can fire up my SR10.2
DN3000 and see what I can see.
JRJ
On 8/9/2015 7:39 PM, Bill Newman wrote:
I have a vintage apollo question...
In the late 1980's when HP acquired Apollo Computer Inc, I recall there
was an HP root account, that shipped with every new machine. In many
cases this account was not removed.
I recently acquired a DN3000 and to my amazement it was clean, and
booted to an SR10.4 login prompt. Does anybody remember that HP account
and password? Alternative cracks would be welcomed as well.
Bill Newman
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