Re: [Thinkpad] Generic Administrator Password

From: Bruce Markowitz <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed Apr 09 2008 - 22:48:31 EDT

Not on an IBM pre-load.
Blank does not work, and obviously if you are trying to use the recovery
console you can't log onto anything.
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From: "Ronny Hippler" <r11roadster@yahoo.com>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Generic Administrator Password

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> RayBay wrote:
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> | 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.
>
> If none has been entered just leave it blank. I have had this work on
> some machines. If you can log in to another account do a reset on the
> administrator account.
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> Bless me father for I have SIMMed.
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