Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!lsr
From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: LaserWriter Password
Message-ID: <9343@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 01:20:25 GMT
References: <1216@surf.sics.bu.oz> <10557@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Lines: 16

In article <10557@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
>
>That trojan horse you mention is particularly insidious.  There is NO way
>to return the printer to its default password without replacing the entire
>controller board unless you know the password.  If a program has set the

In comp.lang.postscript, quando@ibmpcug.co.uk (Nigel Yeoh) posted a program
that is supposed to reset the printer password to 0.  I haven't tried it
personally.  The title of the message is resetpassword.ps, and the id is
<1990Jul19.232247.3166@ibmpcug.co.uk>

-- 
		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist
 Apple Computer, Inc.  20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B  Cupertino, CA 95014
	    AppleLink:Rosenstein1    domain:lsr@Apple.COM
		UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr