Apple LC2 & AT EASE lockout

[Chris Gray]

It is possible, if you get in touch with Apple (or Claris), they can
provide you with a backdoor password to get around this. 

There is one other solution, if you have at least one Mac that you're not
locked out of: take the hard drive out of the machine that is locked and
add it as a second hard drive to another machine. The machine with two
drives should start as usual but you will be able to see and edit the
other drive and then move it back to the machine it came from.

If the machine with two drives can't see the added drive on reboot it is
because AtEase protects itself by adding a small partition to the drive.
In that case, you might have to gain access to the drive by mounting it or
even reformating it using the disk setup utility supplied with the MacOS
software.

Chris Gray
Library Systems
University of Waterloo

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Nathan Schwartz wrote:

> We own an Apple LC2 and have AT EASE installed. Our private Apple access
> code is 10-3011-2957-0207. The problem is that staff have changed and no one
> remembers what the AT EASE password is and subsequently can’t get into this
> computer. There are two potential solutions
> 1)  if there was a super password
> 2)  if I could boot from a floppy
> 
> The second idea sounds better, but won’t work. I’ve tried rebooting with the
> system disk in the internal drive and nothing…I’ve tried holding down the
> shift key to turn extensions off and AT EASE asks for the password. I think
> if I could just boot from a floppy I could delete the AT EASE files and
> reinstall.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Nathan Schwartz
> Automation Systems Manager
> Anderson Public Library
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