EVERHART@arisia.dnet.ge.com (Glenn Everhart 215 354 7610 Everhart%Arisia.dnet.ge.com) (04/25/91)
To break into P/OS, if you can get to a Pro (runnin g p/os 2.0 or later at least) that you can use, there is in the menu system a facility for writing a "password floppy". If you boot the Pro and have that floppy loaded, its' password will override the one on the hard disk. I used this technique once, but it's been long enough ago I don't recall more detail. I believe that some help exists on the system, though, as I had no manuals to infer this from at the time. (Someone had left the company and his pro was unusable till I freed it.) Doing this will also set a password on the pro you make the floppy on, but you can reset that after the floppy is safely written. I don't particularly recommend passwords on personal Pros due to the extreme inconvenience they cause. Glenn Everhart