IPSO Password Recovery

Resetting the Admin Password
At some point, you will encounter a Nokia that needs to have work done on it, but the
admin password has been forgotten. The password cannot be recovered, but a new one may be set as long as console access to the Nokia is available.

1. Boot into single-user mode from a directly attached console connection by entering boot –s at the BOOTMGR prompt.
2. Select sh for the shell by pressing Enter when prompted
3. Type /etc/overpw at the # prompt, and confirm that you want to reset the admin password.
4. Enter the new admin password when prompted, or leave it blank.
5. Press Ctrl + D and allow the system to come up into full multiuser mode.
6. Login as admin. If a dmin password was set to blank, set it now.
7. Use the dbpasswd command to change the password for Voyager: dbpasswd admin newpassword “
8. Save the new voyager password:
dbset :save

The following is what the receding procedure looks like when run through on IPSO 3.6:
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:

# /etc/overpw
This program is used to set a temporary admin password when you have lost the configured password. You must have booted the machine into single user mode to run it. The configured password will be changed. Please change the temporary password as soon as you log on to your system through voyager.

Please enter password for user admin:
Please re-enter password for confirmation:
Continue? [n] y

Running fsck…
/dev/rwd0f: clean, 65453 free (2461 frags, 7874 blocks, 0.6% fragmentation)
/dev/rwd0a: clean, 36154 free (42 frags, 4514 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
/dev/rwd0d: clean, 5802929 free (625 frags, 725288 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
/dev/rwd0e: clean, 902680 free (992 frags, 112711 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
Admin password changed. You may enter ^D to continue booting.
THIS IS A TEMPORARY PASSWORD CHANGE.
PLEASE USE VOYAGER TO CREATE A PERMANENT PASSWORD FOR THE USER ADMIN.