712/60-80

[Robert Noto]

I recently came into a couple of 712/60 and 712/80 workstations. I have worked with solaris for a few years now, but have no HP experience. The person who gave these WS to me, got them at a goverment auction and knows nothing about them. According to the excess tags the HD's were wipe and an OS was reinstalled. They boot fine to the login screen but I do not know what user name and password to use. Is there a way to bypass this problem so I can edit the user files? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

These are old guys and I'm working from memory but here goes.

If you are very lucky and a kind soul installed the OS, the login will be 'root' and the password will simply be .

Plan B is to boot single-user and change the root passwd.

Now the answer to this depends upon the OS that was loaded.
When you boot the machine, I think you will see
something like 'Press to interrupt boot'.
During boot, press several times and after a while you should get some sort of prompt.
If you are running a pre 10.X version of HP-UX
the boot string is something close to this:
hpux -is (;0)/hpux or hpux (;0)/hpux -is

if you are running 10.X or higher
hpux (;0)/stand/vmunix -is.

You can search the forums for single-user boot procedures foe your particular model and OS level.

In any any, when you get to single-user,
type /sbin/passwd root and enter the desired root password. You can then reboot and do any needed tasks. But again, I would try root & first - your chances are quite good.

This should get you started and welcome to UNIX, Clay

[Steffi Jones_1]

Hello Robert,

Clay gave you pretty much all you need to get into the box.
Here are a few more info links for you:

You can go to www.docs.hp.com and you find all important information about HP-UX available there.
Using the search function here on the ITRC will give you access to a lot of docs as well on the desired topic.

Hope that gets you started a bit in understanding and enjoying HP-UX.

Good luck,

Steffi Jones

[Brian Hackley]

Robert,

Since you mentioned that you come from the Solaris world, you should be aware that there is a very handy HPUX <> Solaris Cookbook available from:
http://www.interex.org/tech/9000/Tech/sun_hpux_interop/index.html
I have found this very handy on many occasions!
Regards,
-> Brian Hackley