> 
> Hi:
> 
> This is my first posting to this list (in fact to any list), so please be
> patient.
> 
> A couple of months ago I found a completely unused DECstation 5000/240
> with two RZ25 disks and Ultrix 4.2 installed on one of them. I had
> installed NetBSD on a HP300 in similar circumstances and worked great, so
> I decided to try it on this one. I labelled the target disk, ftp'd and
> installed the bootblocks and the miniroot, halted the machine to boot from
> the NetBSD disk and found out that the system had a console password set,
> so I just could boot from the Ultrix disk. 
> 
> I contacted the former administrator but he didn't remember the password,
> and when I phoned my local DEC Support Service they told me that they'd
> have to change the CPU card (BTW the maintenance contract expired a long
> time ago). My question is if anybody knows how to erase that password or
> if there is a way to enter full console mode without it. 

Wasn't that short circuiting two pins near the battery?

> 
> TIA,
> 						Santi
> 
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de