Completely locked out of OpenVMS 8.4 system
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:20 pm
Hi,
I fired up my Itanium box after about a year of it collecting dust and unfortunately I had forgotten the system password. I tried every password I usually use and after about 35 tries I gave up and decided to just reset the password. I followed the instructions I found online and successfully reset the password but I still can't log in. I tried creating a new account with adduser.com and I can't log in with that account either.
Is this because I used the wrong password so many times? Did I enable some sort of break-in defense that needs to be disabled?
This is what I did to reset the password
fs0:\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi -flags 0,1
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 0
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
spawn @SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM:
RUN SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE
MODIFY SYSTEM /PASSWORD=newsystempassword
quit
I fired up my Itanium box after about a year of it collecting dust and unfortunately I had forgotten the system password. I tried every password I usually use and after about 35 tries I gave up and decided to just reset the password. I followed the instructions I found online and successfully reset the password but I still can't log in. I tried creating a new account with adduser.com and I can't log in with that account either.
Is this because I used the wrong password so many times? Did I enable some sort of break-in defense that needs to be disabled?
This is what I did to reset the password
fs0:\efi\vms\vms_loader.efi -flags 0,1
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 0
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
spawn @SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM:
RUN SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE
MODIFY SYSTEM /PASSWORD=newsystempassword
quit