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Jeff: On Wed, 26 September 2001, Jeff Bull wrote: > This was explained to me by an IBM engineer, who I guess knew what he was > talking about. The experiences I have in this area do bear out what he told > me, though I accept he could be wrong. I expect that IBM would change the > technique occasionally, perhaps with each range of machines, to confound > those that would try to bypass their licensing protection. I have only used > this technique on an oldish 5xx system. Thanks for the funny thought! "Oldish 5xx system"! Ar, ar, ar... and here I was thinking white boxes when I responded. > -----Original Message----- > From: thomas@inorbit.com [mailto:thomas@inorbit.com] > Sent: 26 September 2001 00:17 > > On Mon, 24 September 2001, Jeff Bull wrote: > > > I'm a frayed knot. The disk-initialise does not erase the expired system > > password, I tried this on another old system I attempted to rebuild for a > > client some time ago. > > I'd always had the impression that this was not stored on disk, but instead > was stored in the control panel itself. Disk initialization, reloads, etc., > have no effect on it. Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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