Rescue & Recovery Password

[Harryc]

I have a T42 here that the previous owner set a password for the R&R partition. I thought that by creating a fresh set of R&R CD's that I could bypass this password...no go. How do I get rid of it?

[Harryc]

I found this thread, but the link in it is dead ...

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=361775

Edit: Found it -
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forum ... D=14024288

[TTA]

I have a T42 here that the previous owner set a password for the R&R partition. I thought that by creating a fresh set of R&R CD's that I could bypass this password...no go. How do I get rid of it?

I just found this thread searching for an answer to the same issue on an X40. Turns out the password seems to be stored in the 'c:\ibmshare\ibmpwhp.pyc' file. Moving the ibmpwhp.pyc file to the desktop allowed me to access the R&R partition and recover the machine normally.
This appears to be an older version of rescue and recovery so your mileage may vary with newer versions.