Subject: Re: Unsupported eeprom commands?
To: Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/03/1997 00:06:31
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997 02:57:31 -0400 (EDT)
"Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> wrote:
> I've got a number of sun3s that I'm trying to recover the NVRAM password
> for and noticed that the eeprom command doesn't support the printing of
> the password.
>
> I'm writing code to support this and I was wondering why nobody had
> written this code before (it seems rather simple).
>
> Is there some land-mine I'm not aware of?
>
> I notice that a number of other NVRAM/eeprom values are not supported
> either...
I just never had the time/need to write those. The password one, you
don't want to print the password to non-superusers, obviously.
Anyhow, if you submit the code via send-pr, I will be happy to commit
it to the master sources.
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