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From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: LaserWriter Password
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Date: 25 Jul 90 15:40:04 GMT
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In article <1216@surf.sics.bu.oz> gris@surf.sics.bu.oz (Dave Gris) writes:
>
>I saw an article about a Trojan horse program to change passwords on 
>LaserWriters...
>Another question which I think has been raised before but I did not
>see an answer is: How to you go back to the defaults? Rip the board
>out and put it in the microwave on medium for 2 minutes I suppose. :-)

Maybe it's a deep dark secret, but I don't hink anyone
has mentioned that you can reset the eeprom on a
LaserWriter.  If you remove one of the LaserWriter
roms, the LaserWriter will reset the eeprom when it boots.

1.  I don't remember which rom you have to remove, but
I think it's one of the ones at a corner of the rom array.

2.  This will reset everything - the name, the
password, the page count, ...

Disclaimer -- If you don't know how to safely remove
and replace roms, don't try.  Don't blame me.

You could always just copy the eeprom with a prom
burner.  Assuming you had made a back-up of it...
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