From: Tom Mc Carrick (Tom.McCarrick@unilever.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 15:35:33 EST
(Original question at end)
Got it!
Many thanks for helpful replies from the following:
Paul Thompson
Graham Allan
Bryan Williams
Jeff Beck!
Warren Sturm
Warren Liang
Martin Vasas
Oisin Mc Guinness
Jim Fuller
Kurt Schumacher
Most of the suggestions referred to section 5.5.1 in the Open VMS FAQ
whicj is at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/faq/vmsfaq_005.html#mgmt5a
In brief, at the console prompt I ran the commands:
>>> B/R5:1
This gives a "SYSBOOT" prompt. The following 3 commands:
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 0
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
tell the system to read commands from the console, but not to save for
future reboots.
The prompt changes to a $, then I enter
$ SPAWN
$ @SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
System then starts up and I have a privileged login on the console
Then if I enter:
$ SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM: ! or wherever your SYSUAF.DAT resides
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE
MODIFY SYSTEM /PASSWORD=newpassword
EXIT
The password for "SYSTEM" is reset, which is what I want.
Cheers - Tom
> Hi
> I need to recover the root password on a VMS system - it should have
> been de-commissioned ages ago but it's still needed for loading the
> software image to our DECserver 90TL! Would one of the members have
> details on how to go about this?
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