Industrial VAX 630 booting saga

From: Antonio Carlini <arcarlini_at_iee.org>
Date: Thu Mar 27 10:32:00 2003

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

Maybe in the V5.1 timeframe, but I think even by then SYSTEM/MANAGER
and FIELD/FIELD had long gone!


The OpenVMS FAQ seems to be here:
  http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/faq/vmsfaq_contents.html

Your specific question is here:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/faq/vmsfaq_contents.html

In your case,
>>> B/1
should get you into SYSGEN.

Then
        SYSGEN> SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"
        SYSGEN> SET UAFALT 1
        SYSGEN> SET WRITES 0
        SYSGEN> CONTINUE
should get you a quick boot into the alternate UAF.
As long as there is *no* alternate UAF (and many systems
don't have one) and no SYSUAF logical set during a minimum
boot (who knows ...) you should then be able to
log in as SYSTEM using any passwords *on the system console only*.

Then you do:
        $ SET DEF SYS$SYSTEM
        $ SET PROC/PRIV=ALL
        $ DEASS /SYS/EXE SYSUAF ! I forget if you need /EXE .. try both
if necessary
        $ MC AUTHORIZE
        UAF> MODIFY SYSTEM/NOPWDEXP/PASS=feefiefoefum
        UAF> EXIT
and now reboot, this time letting it come up
normally.

If there is an alternate UAF file, or SYSUAF gets set even on a
minimal boot, then you need to follow the procedure as specified
in the FAQ (but it's a tad trickier IMHO).

Antonio
 
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Antonio Carlini             arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Thu Mar 27 2003 - 10:32:00 GMT

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