Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!rutgers!att!drutx!darryl
From: darryl@drutx.ATT.COM (JacobsD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: firmware password on 3B2/400
Message-ID: <4622@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 89 18:42:12 GMT
References: <17493@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: darryl@drutx.ATT.COM (JacobsD)
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
Lines: 18

In article <17493@netnews.upenn.edu> blackman@hodgkin.med.upenn.edu (David Blackman) writes:
>I have acquired an AT&T 3B2/400.  The system administrator for the
>machine has left town.  My problem is that I don't know the firmware
>password and don't have a floppy key.  I do have root access on the
>machine.  Is there any way to discover or set the firmware password
>without a floppy key?

The easiest method I know of (if you have root permissions) is to run
/etc/crash and type 'nvram fwnvr' at the prompt.

If you don't have the root password, you must disconnect the battery on the
motherboard, as has been described previously.

-- 
Darryl Jacobs		Bell Laboratories, Denver
att!drutx!darryl 

Note: I won't even claim these views as mine.