firmware password on 3B2/400

[JacobsD]

In article <17493 at netnews.upenn.edu> blackman at hodgkin.med.upenn.edu (David Blackman) writes:
>I have acquired an AT&T 3B2/400.  The system administrator for the
>machine has left town.  My problem is that I don't know the firmware
>password and don't have a floppy key.  I do have root access on the
>machine.  Is there any way to discover or set the firmware password
>without a floppy key?

The easiest method I know of (if you have root permissions) is to run
/etc/crash and type 'nvram fwnvr' at the prompt.

If you don't have the root password, you must disconnect the battery on the
motherboard, as has been described previously.

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