V240 ALOM password recovery ???

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V240 ALOM password recovery ???

bryan408 (TechnicalUser)

(OP)

4 Mar 08 14:53

Somehow i cannot override the ALOM password for V240 and this is exactly what i did to my V240.

1) Attach console to Serial Management Port
2) Power on V240 and wait 1 to 2 minutes for a timeout to occur and the system to drop to the "ok>" prompt.
          Please login:
        SC Alert: Host System has Reset

          [wait one two minutes]
        Serial line login timeout, returns to console stream.

        ok> boot

  3) Login CDE as root and password root

  4) Use the scadm command to reset the admin password:

        # cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin
      # ./scadm userpassword admin
            password: 1234abcd
   re-enter password: 1234abcd

   5) Power-down V240. Unplug and plug-in power

   6)Please log-in: admin
     password: 1234abcd

     invalid password
     please log-in:

It seems like i cannot set up the new password for admin.

AnotherAlan (TechnicalUser) · Answer 1 · 2008-03-05 02:13:25

Not sure about this, but you may need to reset the sc after.
Worth a go anyway.

elgrandeperro (TechnicalUser) · Answer 2 · 2008-03-05 12:11:25

Yeah, it isn't written until reset.
use scadm, but esacpe back by #.

then resetsc.

eugene

bryan408 (TechnicalUser) · Answer 3 · 2008-03-06 14:35:50

I already did reset the sc after but i still have the same problem invalid password.

./scadm resetsc

It seems like it only reset to a default state or maybe a beginning state when we set a admin password for sc.

Thank you very much for your replies,
Bryan

elgrandeperro (TechnicalUser) · Answer 4 · 2008-03-06 16:18:56

Try to login with your new password on the sc,
then use resetsc -y. I believe that scadm resetsc is a hard reset, I think you want to either use the sc>rsetsc -y or scadm resetrsc -s to get a "soft" reset.

This is only a guess. The only time I couldn't set the password there was some hardware issue that Sun had to fix.

eugene

bryan408 (TechnicalUser) · Answer 5 · 2008-03-06 21:15:20

I cannot login with a new password on the sc. It keeps saying invalid password.

# ./scadm resetrsc -s

It doesn't help anything......

bryan408 (TechnicalUser) · Answer 6 · 2008-03-13 17:57:15

RE: V240 ALOM password recovery ???

bryan408 (TechnicalUser)

(OP)

13 Mar 08 17:57

any other solution?

elgrandeperro (TechnicalUser) · Answer 7 · 2008-03-13 18:22:04

Sounds like you did everything right. Someone else can verify, it is starting to smell like a hardware issue.

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