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

[R.A.Omond]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> [...snip...]
> Regardless of hardware, those who have years of fat-fingered typing
> experience (eg me) might find it handy to SPAWN out as the very first
> thing once commands are being entered interactively from the console.
> That way, a tryping error leads to the death of the SPAWNed process
> and control returns to the parent. You can then SPAWN out again and
> carry on. Without that, a tryping error generally leads to... another
> reboot, and that's not always a bright idea (on a VAXstation 2000 era
> box, especially not bright).

My favoured method (rather than SPAWN) is to set the
time of day to mid-day as the first command (I've
never really understood why the time of day stops
you having to reboot, but it certainly seems to work):

$ set noon














p.s. ;-)