Kevyn Shortell (kevyn@apple.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:05:20 -0800
The Open Firmware password is the same as the root password.
If you don't know the root password and need to recover the root password:
(Taken from TIL)
Switch server key to the maintenance mode with the AIX installation CD
and boot into maintenance mode or do a hard reset. Then access the rootvg
from the CD and start a shell. You can modify the "/etc/security/passwd"
file with vi by removing the encrypted password after the "=", leave the
rest of the information intact and save the file.
The root section of the passwd file should look similar to this:
root:
password =
lastupdate =
flags =
Before you shut down the server, type:
sync; sync; sync
and press return.
To restart the server, press the reset button and move the key to the
normal mode.
Hope this helps...
Kevyn
At 5:33 PM -0800 11/19/98, Aaron deMello wrote:
>Hi Guys - our last sysadmin freaked out and left us a few months ago and
>I'm trying to revive our ANS 700. I need to get into Open Firmware and it
>seems that Mr. Psycho Sysadmin man has put a password on it and kept it to
>himself.
>
>How can I remove this?
>
>I zapped the PRAM and that did nothing. I also removed the battery for 10
>minutes and that did nothing.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Aaron
>
>---
>Aaron deMello - President aaron@demonsys.com
>Demon Systems, Inc. http://www.demonsys.com
>20 St. Paul St. East, Suite 3 Phone: (514) 875-7475
>Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1G3 Fax: (514) 875-7472
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