Re: reset ALOM password

Maurice Janssen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Todd Carson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 05:14:09PM +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I have a Sun Fire V240 machine with a password on the ALOM.  The previous 
>>  owner can't remember it, so I'm tryingto clear it.
> ...
>>  OpenBSD installs and runs fine, but access to the ALOM would be very nice.  
>>  Does anyone know an alternative solution?  Install Opensolaris? Setting some 
>>  jumper on the mainboard?  Any help is appreciated.
>>
> 
> Can you use the eeprom command to set security-mode to none?
> If I recall correctly, that should work as long as you can boot into
> OpenBSD to run it.

As far as I know, the eeprom command only interacts with the OpenPROM, 
not with the ALOM.

But in the meantime, I found this ISO from Opensolaris:
http://genunix.org/dist/indiana/osol-dev-134-ai-sparc.iso
This boots into a Live-cd environment, including the scadm command that 
you normally would run from Solaris to reset the password.

This works like a charm, so now I can access the ALOM without any problem.

Maurice
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