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From: awatkins@lager.UVic.CA (Andrew  Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Help!  All our passwords are gone
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.200732.25140@sol.UVic.CA>
Date: 6 Jun 91 20:07:32 GMT
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Hello,

We recently purchased an HP/Apollo 400t computer running Domain 10.3. As a 
lone Apollo in a large network of Suns it has been the source of much 
frustration. 

Our latest and greatest experience to date is that it is not letting anyone
log on.  All that we have done so far is to install the operating system and 
start the daemons: llbd, rgyd and glbd. The original passwords were not changed
from the default -apollo-. Now neither of the two default accounts 'user' or 
'root' will work. I am quite sure that no one has intentially changed all the
passwords, although this is a possibility.

I have two questions: 

1) can anyone tell what are the other standard accounts that come with the
   default /etc/passwd file, besides the 'user' and 'root' accounts? I want to
   try the -apollo- password on these too.

2) If all the passwords have all been lost, is it possible to get a shell with
   root permissions. I know this is possible with a Sun by booting up in 
   single-user mode. I really want to avoid having to reload the OS.


Thanks very much for any help,

Andrew Watkins
Research Programmer
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC CANADA