[Simh] Getting started with RSTS - unknown password

[Brett Bump]

Ray is correct.  All of the pre-genned .zip file installations that I
created have the "traditional" passwords that were used for RSTS "if"
I created those accounts.  For pre version 9 systems the standard was

[1,1] SECRET
[1,2] SYSLIB

The pre-genned .zip files come with these as default

[1,2] SYSLIB
[1,5] SYSUSR
[100,100] DEMODEMO

I believe Tim (and a few others) had some V10 distros available for
download, but I did not make these available on Rsts.org in order to
comply with the Mentec hobby license agreement.

One of these days I need to take some time and pre-gen some of the
other versions so they are all easy to download and use without much
effort.

Brett

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Ray Jewhurst wrote:

> IIRC all of the prebuilt systems on RSTS.org come with a text file called password.txt which provides all of the passwords. If you no longer have yours, you could
> always redownload the packages. 
> Ray
> 
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 4:24 PM Peter Allan <petermallan at gmail.com> wrote:
>       While I have been playing with running VMS on simulated VAXen, and RT-11 and RSX-11M(+) on simulated PDP11s for many years, I have never tried RSTS on a
>       PDP11 - until now.
> I have found installation tapes on rsts.org, but I also have a pre-built system that I downloaded in January 2018 that I was hoping to start with. I can't recall
> where I got it from.
> 
> The file name that I downloaded is RSTS_V10.1.zip and the contents of the zip file are:
>   RQDiskV10_1.DSK
>   rsts_1193.ini
> 
> The DSK file is 155MB in size, so I presume it is a simulated RD54.
> 
> I can boot the system using the simh pdp11.exe executable on Windows 10 (I normally use CentOS rather than Windows for this type of work) and it appears to run
> successfully. HOWEVER, I can't log in as I have no information on a username/password combination. I have guessed a few possible passwords (including no password)
> for the [1,2] account, but to no avail.
> 
> Does anyone recognise the system that I have described to the extent that you might be able to help me use it?
> 
> Also, does anyone know how to get into a RSTS system when you have forgotten the system password? Is this even possible? I know how to do it on VMS, but RSTS is
> completely new to me.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Peter Allan 
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