Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3: recover root password - repost, original never appeared

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 07:43 pm, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
> If this appears twice all of a sudden, my apologies - it's 2 hours and
> nothing so far, so I'm reposting:
>
>
> I've just fired up my used Qube3, which we purchased on Ebay, and hit the
> reset to clear the previous admin password, but it appears this doesn't
> clear the root password... if it does, then it gets reset to something
> different to the admin password.
>
> Can anyone advise what it gets reset to (if anything); alternatively, can
> is the a procedure to regaining a lost root password on a Qube3.
>
> For the record, I have telnet working for admin, but no root password (and
> the admin password doesn't work for su - root).
>
You have to hold the switch in until the display indicates resetting pasword
At least that is the way the rest of them work, sometimes takes a couple 
seconds
(Did you get the PS from Allied?)

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