Any know how to do password recovery on an IP690?

[bigmil]

I've locked myself out during the initial install -- can anyone help?

Your help would be greatly appreciated. This is the first box I've configured so this is really frustrating. I can do a Ctrl-C to break the reboot but their is no "boot -s" command available.

Thanks!

[linuxsrc]

If the appliance is disk-based, you may follow the next procedure,

1. Turn off the power to the appliance.
2. Remove the hard-disk drive from the appliance.
3. Turn on the power to the appliance.
4. When the appliance reboots, enter the boot manager.
5. At the boot manager command prompt, type passwd.
The New Password prompt appears.
6. Enter your new password.
7. Turn off the power to the appliance.
8. Reinstall the hard-disk drive.
9. Turn on the power to the appliance.

If the appliance is diskless, pls contact NOKIA TAC for support.

[gregrack]

I received the following from Nokia TAC:

How do I change the admin password when it is lost or unknown?

Vantive Resolutions ID: 1132674
Version: 1.0
Published: December 23, 2005

Description
This resolution describes how to reset the admin password, should it be
unknown or forgotten. There are some important notes that need to be
considered first:



The supported method is to boot the system into single-user mode and run
/etc/overpw

If you are running IPSO 3.1.3 or earlier on a boot manager platform, (which
could only be an IP650 or IP330), overpw fails. Please ask for Internal
Resolution 1961 - How to remove config and password if overpw fails. (Newer
boot manager platforms require later versions of IPSO, for which overpw has
been updated.)

If you are running IPSO 3.4.x, then you will be able to login as admin to
the console without a password, but you will not be able to log into Network
Voyager. Therefore,

The use of overpw requires the use of the dbpasswd in order to set the
Network Voyager password to be the same as the login password.

"
Resolution
You must have local serial console access to the unit to perform this
procedure.

Boot system into single user mode.To do this reboot or power cycle the
machine, When you see the line " boot:" you must enter "-s" before it goes
into multiuser mode. (you have about 10 seconds)
* on a ip330 or ip650 you need to type boot -s at the BOOTMGR prompt*

After it boots, it will ask you "Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:",
press Enter key.

Type "/etc/overpw"in the # prompt.It will ask if you want continue, type
"y".
In IPSO 3.1.3 systems and earlier, it will ask you to put a floppy disk into
the floppy drive to make sure you have physical access to the box. Put a
floppy disk into the floppy drive and press Enter key. IPSO 3.1.4 and later
does not ask this question.
In IPSO 3.4 and above, /etc/overpw will ask you to set a password. The admin
password defaults to no password in earlier versions of IPSO.

Continue to boot to multiuser mode.

Login as admin. If a password is required, you will be asked for one.

Use the dbpasswd command to set a new password:
nokia[admin]# dbpasswd admin newpassword "
(Note that the " is necessary to specify (NULL) as the old password.)
Then, save this new password to the configuration file so that you can log
into Network Voyager:
nokia[admin]# dbset :save