Solution to root password loss in ESIX

[rlm at ceres.physics.uiowa.edu]

Thanks to all those who responded so quickly to my dilemma: the short
answer to the problem of lost or forgotten password on root account in
ESIX is to boot off the floppies - when the second floppy finishes, it
asks if you want to recover. Answer yes, and it resets the password files
(and some others) to a virgin status while renaming all old files.

Robert Mutel
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

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