Alphastation 200 login (Wayne S)

[Wayne S]

I should have specifically  said it’s Windows Nt.  Issue is that it’s an Alpha so can’t use the usual  software to change or remove the password unless there’s an Alpha version. Best suggestion so far is to use a version of Unix that runs on Alpha and rename the SAM file.


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> On May 18, 2022, at 10:45, 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.