HP 9000/840S is alive (sorta)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Jun 8 22:21:30 1999

<Actually, most versions of passwd bypass the request for the old password
<if you are running them as root. I'd try 'passwd root' and see what happens

For ULTRIX you can go Single user and "edit" the password to "" and then
the root password is null. The trick however is finding it and dealing
with ED. I believe this works with other versions of Unix too.

Allison
Received on Tue Jun 08 1999 - 22:21:30 BST