Re: 9401

Do a manual IPL from the control panel.  Boot into DST.
There you are given the opportunity to change the Security
Officer's Password.

The password for DST, unless it has been changed, is all
2's.

Which is why you don't have a secure AS/400 unless your
box is also secure.  I was told by IBM not to change this
password, if I did and left, no one would ever be able to
get back into it if the security officer password was forgotten.

Let me get this straight, there is an AS/400 sitting around that
has not been used since 1994, and your company is concerned
that it won't work after 2000?

Umm... Are they also concerned that those old 80286's you
have in storage won't work either?

Regards,

Jim Langston

Art Baker wrote:

> The plot thickens for this 9401 machine.
> Apparently it has not been used since 1994. I'm looking at a sign-on screen
> wondering what name and password to use. I tired QSECOFR/QSECOFR and
> QSECOFR/with 1's and 2's ...and 1234567 for a password but can't get in. The
> salesman that the machine was assigned to must have fallen off the earth,
> can't seem to fine him. Plus, can't fine any paper work on this machine
> around here. So, How do you sign-on to a machine when you don't know the
> password? Do I have to reinstall the operating system?
> Art

<SNIP>

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