password lost on Vaxstation 2000

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From: Shor, Andy
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:22

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I just bought a Vaxstation 2000 for which the system password was apparently
forgotten or corrupted, since the one I was told doesn't work.  That would be a
reason to sell it.  It was running vms 4.7 and has an RD54 and no input device
other than ethernet.  Is there a way to get around this using the rom monitor
and halt switch?  I guess it would work to put the disk on another machine and
delete the password file, or something like that, but it is a lot of trouble.
I'm told it doesn't cost anything to transfer the vms license, but that
wouldn't solve anything by itself.  Any suggestions?  Thank you.

Andy Shor
shor@utkvx.utk.edu

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From: shor@utkvx3.utk.edu (Shor, Andy)
Subject: password lost on Vaxstation 2000
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