Cobalt Qube... password lost

[Cesar Davila]

The manual for this product is at :

www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/pdfs/manuals/manual.raq4.pdf

Aparently there is a recessed button that you have to push with a paper clip
to reset the password. Information is on page 51.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:51 AM
> To: filePro mailing list
> Subject: OT: Cobalt Qube... password lost
>
>
>
> I sent a Cobalt Qube out to Tom at Microlite so they could port over
> BackupEDGE for us. We use these little Linux cube computers for various
> things. It turns out making a backupEDGE with crash recovery for it is not
> going to be possible in near future because it uses a software
> raid for the
> two hard drives in it.  Anyway, long story short, when we got the computer
> back, it now has a different password on it for "admin"... one that nobody
> knows. Since this computer has no monitor port, there is going to
> be no way
> to get back onto this system. It will be essentially destroyed soon if I
> can't come up with some way to get to the filesystem and change the
> password.  Does anyone know about these things?  It was a company called
> Cobalt that got purchased by Sun, then they dumped the line.  I realize it
> is essentially dead, but these are really great computers... I
> hate to lose
> it over something as stupid as a screwed up password. I've
> checked around a
> lot on the net... but there doesn't seem to be a way to fix a
> lost password,
> or reload the system on it without same.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John
>
> P.S. - Tom's people say they did not change the password, but the one from
> the original letter I sent with the Qube to them does not work
> anymore. Any
> ideas on how it might have been inadvertently changed would be
> appreciated,
> too. I have, of course, tried ENTER and a few of the other
> standard things.
> Next, I'm going to try "Joshua". :-)
>
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