Alphastation 200 login (Wayne S)

[Bill Degnan]

clues if your Alpha uses VMS
https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=610

Clues if DEC UNIX
https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=679

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On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 1:45 PM Craig Ruff via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> > On May 18, 2022, at 11:00, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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> > Got my Alphastation to boot but i can?t logon because i don?t the administrator password? Any ideas on how to get past that?
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> It depends on the OS installed. For Unix-style OS you need to figure out the single user boot mode, which may mean passing "-s" or "single" in the boot arguments from the ROM. For VMS, if I recall correctly, you set the boot R5 register to 1. Then obviously the reset of the administrator user password is also OS dependent.