Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!rcorless From: rcorless@uwovax.uwo.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Laser Printer Password Question Message-ID: <7226.27083af7@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 2 Oct 90 11:00:07 GMT Lines: 57 Two people responded helpfully to my query about finding "the" place to change the password for the LaserWriter. I am posting their responses and a summary of my progress so far. Dave Platt (dplatt@coherent.com) writes: >Dig through the LaserPrep file, looking for the "exitserver" operator. >The number immediately before this operator is the password. Edit this >password in a copy of LaserPrep. Distribute the modified LaserPrep file >to all of your users. I could not find "exitserver" anywhere in the LaserPrep file. Chaz Larson (clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu) writes: >Within the "LaserWriter" file, you will find the above command in >STR# ID = -4093 >Hope this helps. This string is indeed there, and I changed the 0 there to our new password. However, this didn't help. I still got the Error: password incorrect: OffendingCommand: exitserver message from the printer. So I looked a bit further and found "exitserver" in 3 more places in the LaserWriter file: in POST -8161 "exitserver" is part of the definition of a PostScript word ExitServer, whose purpose I am unable to fathom. The sequence serverdict begin exitserver, without a 0 between the begin and exitserver, occurs in ExitServer. I made no changes here. In POST -8192 there is a sequence serverdict begin 0 exitserver, which apparently is what is issued after a printer error in the case of a restart. I changed the 0 here to our password. In PREC -109 the operator "exitserver" appears in what is apparently a message that is issued after a printer error. I made no changes here. I found no other occurrences of "exitserver". Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. I still get the error message. I checked via the IBM machines that I do indeed know the correct password. I suspect I have missed finding the crucial place - perhaps in LaserPrep? It may be hardwired in somewhere, or it may be that word ExitServer needs to be modified. Can anyone help? In the meantime, I am working around it by using Xtalk from an IBM to set the password back to 0 and then trundling the printer down here to use. This of course leaves the printer vulnerable while I am using it, and I have to set the password back when I take it back. -- ======== Robert Corless, Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario ======== London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9 e-mail : RCORLESS@uwovax.uwo.ca