Re: New 520 - Does the OS come pre-installed?

As to DST passwords - I strongly, urgently recommend that you give anyone who needs access to DST/SST their own DST user and password. No one should use QSECOFR in that world except when the machine is first set up. The situation Aaron ran into is exactly why - it is far too easy to disable QSECOFR when logging in to DST or SST. QSRV (spelling?) and a couple other ones should be basically disabled, and if needed by a service person, go in there with enough authority and open those up while needed.

JMHO
Vern

Grizzly Malchow wrote:

Good to know. When I first started working here I had never done any sort of sys admin stuff, therefore I had never used DST. I remember trying to log in to DST and I didn't know the password. I tried using qsecofr's password and using QSECOFR as the password. Neither would work. I eventually tried password as the password and I was able to login. Hence my thinking that it was the default. Why someone would change the DST password to password boggles the mind. I don't know if it's better or worse than leaving it as QSECOFR.
I'm no security guru, but I like a nice cryptic password. The first thing I did after logging in was change the password.

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nope...the default is QSECOFR.

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: Grizzly Malchow <grizzlym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 10/30/2009 08:43 AM
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I could be wrong but is the default password for DST just 'password'?

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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
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I am now in section "Initial IBM i OS configuration" (
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/GettingStarted).

Upon first logging in with QSECOFR/QSECOFR it requires you to change the
QSECOFR password. No issue, I did that and proceeded to the next step of
putting the system into manual mode, was prompted by the DST logon prompt,
and I entered QSECOFR and the *new* password. Well, it didn't take the new
password, so I tried QSECOFR as the password - no go. And now it is telling
me "Id disabled" when I try to log in. When I do an F1 on that message to
get more info it just takes me to the help for the screen, so I don't even
have a message id to do a search on to see how to resolve the issue. This
is the only page I could find, but it requires that I am able to log in to
DST to enable a DST profile - thanks IBM:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/rzamh/rzamhenabledevidsdst.htm


Help.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com