Purist

When I console to the box I get a cursor *>. Whatever I type in I get 'invalid login'. What would be the syntax to enter the username and password? Is it 'user ' and 'password >password>'? Many Thanks.

Yes, I meant the serial connection.

Is it possible to get around the installer password by locally connecting via the console cable?

This works on a 16 channel DS2 with software version 3.1 (152) but does not, on an identical box running ver. 3.1 (165)