[Info-vax] Need some special help changing the system password

Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez cem14 at cornell.edu
Fri Jan 30 06:50:27 EST 2009


I'm bringing back to life my vaxstation 2000 and have
forgotten the system password that I used the last time
(which was at an exhibit at the university; I used something
innocuous so other people could play with it, but I managed
to forget it even so).

The thing is, the standard way of doing this from the
console did not work because I'm using a serial console
in the printer port -- I don't have the original mono
monitor.  So, when I SET /STARTUP OPA0:  and the
other parameters in the conversational boot up,
after I type "CONTINUE" I get an error about
it not being able to open the SYS$INPUT file.

I guess that OPA0: keeps assuming the system console
to be the mono monitor and standard keyboard, as opposed
to a serial console in the DE9 printer port.

So, if I want the thing to accept commands from
the serial console, what should I set /STARTUP to
in the conversational boot instead of OPA0: ?

Thanks,

carlos.



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