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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2 Floppy Key Problem
Summary: crash command "nvram fwnvr" works on 2.0.4
Keywords: floppy key nvram
Message-ID: <394@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 15:08:51 GMT
References: <1094@psu-cs.UUCP> <293@alobar.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis)
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Network & Data Systems, OKC
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In article <293@alobar.ATT.COM> grs@alobar.UUCP (Gregg Siegfried) writes:
>In order to find the firmware password (I don't know of a hardware
>password) if one can log in as root, just use the crash(1M) program.
>The crash command "nvram fwnvr" will display various firmware
>parameters, among them the firmware password.  This works for my 600
>running 3.1.1.  I haven't used an earlier 3B2 release in a long time,
>so I don't remember if that particular crash command existed previously.
>I would hope so.

  Neat!  I didn't know that existed.  I read this, turned around to my 3B2
and typed the crash command, got the ">" prompt, typed 'nvram fwnvr' and
it worked.  This is on a 310 running release 2.0.4.

Randy Davis					UUCP: ...(att!)ocrjd!randy
						      ...(att!)occrsh!rjd