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From: kalisiak@acsu.buffalo.edu (christophe m kalisiak)
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Subject: Re: P/OS security? (or how to break into a P/OS system)
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Date: 18 Apr 91 00:36:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.134937.47433@cc.usu.edu> slsw2@cc.usu.edu writes:
>In article <41275@cup.portal.com>, Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes:
>While the machine was booting, executing the startup command file, I pressed
>^C. That gave me an MCR prompt at which I could type a command. Since the
>machine was executing the startup command file, the MCR prompt was attached to
>the system account. In an obscure manual that I no longer have and don't
>remember very well, I found the name of the password file. The MCR command
>that I issued, then, typed the password file on the console.

What was the command? I would say that if one were to delete the 
password file, then you could probably start from scratch...
Don't quote me on it.

>Since P/OS is related to RSX-11M, it might work. Wish I could remember the
>name of the account file, though...

[0,0]RSX11.SYS


Chris Kalisiak
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