Re: Load source on old 9406-720

Hopefully there is another user profile on the system with *ALLOBJ and
*SECADM special authority that you can use to reset the i5/OS QSECOFR
password. Otherwise, it's backup, initialize, load LIC from PID,
restore the balance of the system, aka: Bad news.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 4/12/2012 8:42 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

I'm guessing that the QSECOFR password wasn't included either when he

bought

the machine. A company that I worked for years ago had the same

problem: No

QSECOFR password. But we booted the system into DST and used either the
22222222 or 11111111 profile to change the password for QSECOFR. That

was,

if I remember correctly, a V3 something machine.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery
lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave

Oxford

by the next town drain. - Rev. William Spooner
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615-867-5070

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 8:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Load source on old 9406-720

Your chances of finding the DST password are about the same as that of a
snowball inside a blast furnace, not gonna happen.

Use Larry's suggestion and from the console, signed on as QSECOFR, issue

the

CHGDSTPWD *DEFAULT command.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 4/12/2012 7:31 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

If you have 22222222 access you could SEE which disk is the
loadsource, just go to the rackconfig and it will be marked with *

> From there, take the serial number and just take each disk.

To aid in your hacking, stop all parity protection (one less

abstraction

layer).

And good luck i doubt the users/pass are stored in plaintext.
You could also dump an op21 and look at the lic code part...

Keep us posted, i'm curious about this.

best regards,

Roberto

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:12 AM, DrFranken<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

> Well I can tell you it's the top cage, left disk unit, ALMOST

certainly.

> It's possible that it's the 2nd disk from the left.
>
> Now on this quest to find the DST Password with a disk
> editor...... Yeah good luck with that.
>
> I believe they are encrypted, and worse in EBCDIC so

noodling for

> recognizable stuff will be hard.
>
> Why don't you run CHGDSTPWD and reset the QSECOFR DST

profile that

way?

>
> - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 4/12/2012 6:44 AM, Jim Donoghue wrote:

>> I have this old 9406-720. It has five drives in the cage

on the

>> top left side (below the control panel), and two in the

cage

>> below it. How do I find out which is the load source? I

can only

access DST with the '22222222'

>> user ID. I need to find the load source device so I can

poke

>> into it with a disk editor and hopefully find where the

DST

passwords are stored.

>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim

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