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

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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?)



yes, that's exactly the power supply I bought - it was $57 and change, and it works a treat...

I did the few seconds thing, and that reset the admin password - is it supposed to reset root to the same password?

tia

Greg

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