carlsson
Veteran Member
A while ago I acquired an IBM RT 6151, the desktop model. The 6153 monitor doesn't seem to work, so I got ahold of a 8-bit ISA MDA card which allows me to see the system boots up allright into AIX. However I don't know the root or any other password. Is there some default that I could try? I suppose asking for how to hack into a system might be a bit borderline for the VC Forum, but perhaps there is some advice to try.
From another source, I came across original floppy disks: Virtual Resource Mgr 1/2 + 2/2, Install/Maintainance 1/1 and Base System Program 1/5. Does anyone know if I could boot e.g. the Install/Maintainance disk and that way reset or configure user accounts? In the worst case, I might have to reinstall the system from scratch (and thus obtain a 1.2M drive to write image files for the missing floppy disks). Obviously I could just try to see what happens, but I might ask here first if that is possible.
From another source, I came across original floppy disks: Virtual Resource Mgr 1/2 + 2/2, Install/Maintainance 1/1 and Base System Program 1/5. Does anyone know if I could boot e.g. the Install/Maintainance disk and that way reset or configure user accounts? In the worst case, I might have to reinstall the system from scratch (and thus obtain a 1.2M drive to write image files for the missing floppy disks). Obviously I could just try to see what happens, but I might ask here first if that is possible.
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