Everyone,

Or the real world senario would be.

The SM went on vacation and did not leave the password
for anyone.  Some configuration changes were made and
the system was rebooted, errors were made and the
system was not able to come back up correctly.

It took 45 minutes, but I did get in.

I did not mean to get anybody's knickers in a knot,
and I specifically asked to be messaged off-line.

I have better things to do than hacking.  However at
the same time, I find that it is an excellent way to
learn debug on the HP3000.

Happy New Year to all (unless somehow you are offended
by the phrase.  :) )

-Craig



> Tom
>
> (*) almost forgot: ways in which the SM password
> gets "lost":
>  -- current SM "dies" [or leaves and is completely
> unreachable]; in a "small
> shop", this is very likely -- in an even SMALLER
> shop, they may have never
> actually HAD an "SM" (i.e., a VAR-like vendor
> supplied them with an HP and
> some application software; if the VAR goes away...)
>  -- former SM is "disgruntled"; trashes current
> passwords on the way out the
> door.
>  -- a real honest-to-goodness breakin HAS occured
> and the attacker is
> malicious enough to have altered the existing
> passwords [variant of the
> disgruntled SM case, since a fair percentage of such
> "malicious break-ins"
> are caused by former or soon-to-be-former employees]
>  -- "old age" sets in -- the actual SM never has to
> log on as manager.sys
> (nothing ever goes wrong...) for several months to a
> year or more, and has
> simply forgotten the password by now.
>
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