Re: [Thinkpad] Generic Administrator Password

sysadmin
ibmadmin
bigblue
hollerith
watson
EBCDIC

? Don't listen, I'm just fooling around.

>I have tried before as well, and could never find it. I would have thought
>it would be "admin", but that does not work.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "RayBay" <canyonlands@gmail.com>
>Cc: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Generic Administrator Password
>
>
>> Bruce is correct:
>>
>> "To do a repair from the repair console, you need the admin password. But
>> the
>> ThinkPad pre-load of XP does not seem to have one. So, as far as I have
>been
>> able to research, it is impossible to repair an IBM load from the console.
>> His question was NOT about a "missing" password."
>>
>> George Colgrove's post is generally correct, but not with Thinkpads T-23,
>> T-30, X-series, or T-4x series.
>>
>> There are various repair procedures you can run on other laptops and
>> desktops by booting to software or Windows XPP in Administrator mode. I
>> haven't found a modern Thinkpad that will allow this because it asks for a
>> password when none has been entered.
>>
>> I assume there is one, as the old EZServe guys told me there was... but
>> would not provide it...
>>
>> I have books of tech shop passwords, but none of them work on Thinkpad R,
>X,
>> or T-series.
>>
>> I assume somebody had figgered out what works and posted it on line
>> somewhere, but I have yet to discover it.
>>
>> Thanks, Bruce.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ray Bay
>> ________
>>
>> A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour,
>> tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
>>
>> Cicero 47BC
>

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