From: jb@apk.net (Jim)
Subject: Re: password new 4.11 install
Date: 1998/10/28
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On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:08:03 -0500, "Kevin D. Snodgrass"
 wrote:

>jerry wrote:
>> 
>> I just installed my first 4.11 network at home.  I can't believe it, but
>> I can't find anywhere in the manual what the default password is for
>> Admin the very "first" time you login from a workstation.
>> 
>> Can anyone help me with this?  I've tried "password", "default", "new"
>> etc...
>
>There is no such thing as a "default password".  That would
>be a monster security hole.  The Admin password is the
>password you typed in when you did the install.  If you
>forgot it either get some hack tools (http://www.nmrc.org/)
>or reinstall.

The first install I did it did not ask me to type in a password.

I tried various guesses, and in frustration, I just hit OK with no
password, and it let me in. Apparently there was no password at all.