(blogged and mailed -- passwords etc restricted to email version)

Hiya, Rafael,

Thanks for your report!  

I did see the odd formatting you mention, but it's gone now.

There has all along been weirdness at that school because of how they "divorced" the unified high school into the four small schools.  So when a computer doesn't respond to the SOE school-specific techco password, among the things to try [besides the CPS-wide universal just-installed one, which I assume you have and tried on this unit] would be the passwords for the other small schools and the long ago unified high school.  Russ and I will check in our old notes and try to find them to send you.  

Sort of the same thing applies to the Deep Freeze password, except that I seem to recall SOE never had its own and used one that seems to refer to the School of Technology.  Is that the one you use?  Is there a DF console around?  -- sometimes thawing a computer from the DF Console works even when direct keyboard entry doesn't. 

Another approach to getting a privileged login [besides our coming up with the other-school passwords] would be to clear out one of those passwords with a password-breaking bootdisk.  One that CUIP is fond of we call "the Norwegian disk" -- see Allan's report from Reavis.  The site for that is http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ .  

Thanks,

  ==Mitch