On Thu, 11 May 1995, Larry Kealey wrote: > > > Can anyone enlighten me further into how this would be > > done and if such back doors exist in other operating > > systems. > > Under NeXTStep, one needs only to hold down both command keys (on > Non-NeXT hardware it may be the Alt or other keys) and hit the tilda, > the mini-monitor appears, you can then halt the machine. Then boot > the machine in single user mode: bsd -s, and you are logged in as > root at the system console. After that, you need to start the netinfo > daemons, then you can reset the root password using passwd. > > This will only work if the machine does not have a hardware password > set, if it does have a hardware password set, you can replace the ROM > chip with one from another machine to get in. > > I have also heard that the hardware password (and all the other ROM > settings) will get wiped if you remove the battery for a while, but I > haven't tried it.(Haven't had the need... :>) > Does anyone know? Ya, it works. That's what i did when i forgot the hardware password. > > L Kealey > Phibro Energy USA, Inc. >