Industrial VAX 630 booting saga

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Mar 27 09:29:00 2003

--- David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> ...Now I have a call in to the former oweners, to find a
> username/password.

There are instructions in VMS FAQs (among other places) for how to
get into a machine when you have free access to the console. There
is some variation, but there are some cookbook instructions on how
to do it.

> Does anybody know, when Digital sent out (loaner) machines to
> comapnaies for testing products, was there a default username/password
> that they usually set?

The canonical defaults are SYSTEM/MANAGER and FIELD/SERVICE. Some
older machines might have SYSTEST/UETP. Any of these should have enough
privs to let you twiddle the SYSUAF file (change passwords, add accounts,
etc.)

More recent versions of VMS will not allow you to take a default
SYSTEM password, but you can change it back after the install is
done.

-ethan
Received on Thu Mar 27 2003 - 09:29:00 GMT