Try the main VMS FAQ at
http://www.openvms.digital.com/wizard/openvms_faq.html

or Try the part 2 of the VMS FAQ at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/vms/part2/
Check the section "MGMT5.  I've forgotten the SYSTEM password - what can I
do?"

The basics are: boot with B/1 and at the SYSBOOT prompt, change the pointer
for the
boot startup file to be the console (OPA0:), run the regular startup file as
a sub-process,
and when that finishes, you will be left logged in on the console with full
privileges and
you can change the SYSTEM password to whatever you want.
Anyway, it's all detailed in the VMS FAQ.

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Thomas  Dzubin - Network System Software Analyst
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Brown [SMTP:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:11 AM
> To:	port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject:	Re: your mail
> 
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:02:28AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > > Before I get to installing NetBSD (btw; thanx for all the hints :) I
> > > would like to have a snoop around the hard disk.  The problem is that
> > > [its] previous owner is now dead, so there is no chance of getting
> > > the root password.
> 
> > Before going to too much trouble over this, try the classic logins:
> > user system, password manager; user field, password service; user
> > systest, password uetp.  If the machine was non-networked there's some
> > chance the previous owner was using those.  Once you get a login,
> 
> Last time I looked I found some instructions for resetting the admin
> passwords on VMS in one of the FAQs out there.  It was on Digital's
> website IIRC.
> 
> /me is waiting for winter before he actually tries playing seriously
>     with his VAX.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Brown  mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk   (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
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