Priviledge Password

we are running a 43p-140 as a test server with AIX 5.1. 
It has been running for quite a while and rebooted fine all the time. 
This week we had to shut it down due to a planned power outage. 
Now is does not come up any longer ! 



>From the error codes i could see that the CMOS battery was empty 


(RTC errors), so i replaced it. 

At present it keeps asking me for the Privileged-Access Password ! 
We never configured this feature and we have never set this password ! 
Does anyone have an idea ? 
Is there a (secret) default password ? 


I played with the jumper, but it didn't help. 
I took out the battery and waited for a while, didn't help either. 


It does not seem to boot from CD-ROM any longer (so no diagnostic cd). 
Nor from Harddisk. 

 had this problem several years ago, and now I can't remember exactly 
how I fixed it -- I think that I had to hit either "Enter" or "space 
Enter" at the PAP prompt.  It may be that the password had to be 
entered from a serial terminal rather than the PS/2 keyboard. 

As I recall, once you get past this PAP prompt the first time, it 
doesn't return, so you'll be able to set your boot order and boot 
normally. 
Rick Ekblaw 

Lost Ordinary Password

(1)
You should boot the server using the CDROM #1 you got from the vendor. 
Than you press F8 (I am not sure it depends which server is it) and go 
to maintainance 
mode. One of the options there is changing the root password. 
It is not a big deal, but I have not done it lately so you may check it 
farther. 

(2)
1.138: I lost the root password, what should I do?
From: dramm@csusm.edu (Donald E. Ramm)

Boot from boot diskettes, bootable tape, or bootable CD.  
At the Installation/Maint menu select item 4, "Start a limited function
	maintenance shell.
At the subsequent "#" prompt enter the command:
	getrootfs hdiskN
	(where "N" is replaced by the number of a disk on your system
	that is in rootvg.)
That will run for about a minute or so and you get a # prompt back.  At this
	point you are logged in as root in single user mode.
Change to /etc/security and edit the passwd file.  Delete the three lines
	under root: password, update time (or whatever it's called), and
	flags.  Save the file.
Then at the prompt, give root a new password.
Shutdown/reboot in normal mode.  Log in with new password.