Re: recovering DST password

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Previous email sent to list with outcome in this case (luck counted).

Final comment/Q (no longer relevant here) is that FWIK you CANNOT 
recover a system if you don't know the DST password.

Jerry



On 3/20/2023 9:24 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> Does your screen look like the following
> https://imgur.com/X3ynl1j
> If so that might be indicative that you have "allow console takeover" set
> up in SST set up with
> 8. Work with Service Tools Server Security and Devices
> 2. Select console
> Allow console recovery and console can be taken
>      over by another console  . . . . . . . . .  1   1=Yes, 2=No
>
> So that's a perfectly normal IPL it just wants to takeover the console.
> Console takeover allows you to drop your console session during critical
> operations like a full system save, long month end process, adding new disk
> drives, etc and reconnect right back in as if there were no interruptions.
> I love it.  Some people hate it as that 'operator' who uses the system
> console to do a restricted full system save now gets this prompt and that
> would require typing up new instructions for that operator.
> The only function key to bypass this indicates that it will power off that
> session.
>
> You've said you've done multiple IPLs, right?  Any chance you can now ping
> the regular IP address?  Can you start a regular 5250 session that's not a
> system console?
> If ping works but not 5250 perhaps there's a back door.  Like maybe
> QINTER is down you you need to use ftp to do
> quote rcmd strsbs qinter
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 2:47 PM Jerry Draper<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Customer lost DST QSECOFR password.
> >
> > Following these instructions on an 8202 P7 system from Larry Bolhuis
> >
> > **********************************
> > Select manual mode from the control panel (01 B M)
> > Select function 21 and press Enter
> > control panel display is now 21   00
> > Log on as QSECOFR QSECOFR
> > **********************************
> >
> > Selected function 21 from the pull out control panel
> >
> > Press enter and control panel is now 21  00
> >
> > Press enter again
> >
> > Using ACS I still get a prompt for DST userid/password when I click
> > console for selected system
> >
> > Expecting to be able to log on to DST with QSECOFR QSECOFR
> >
> > Hmm.  What am I missing?
> >
> > Thx,
> >
> > Jerry
> >
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