> Say there is a SPARCstation ELC that has a password set on the boot
> prom.

> Say this ELC doesn't have an OS.

> What is needed to reset the password to allow access to the prom?

Simplest thing is to supply a boot setup on whatever medium the PROM is
set to boot from, boot an OS, and either bash the security-mode setting
in the prom or just grab the password out of the prom.  I can't recall
whether an ELC is an "open"prom machine or not; if /dev/eeprom (as
opposed to /dev/openprom) works, "strings /dev/eeprom" will usually
show the password.  (I can't recall which sort of PROM an ELC has.)
The NetBSD eeprom command does not understand the security-mode and
security-password fields; the SunOS eeprom command understands at least
the former.  It might be possible to do something directly with the
ioctls to bash the security-mode under NetBSD.

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