[ale] [OT] Good Server Documentation - Best Practices

[Jonathan Glass]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:39, Benjie Godfrey wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 11:40, Joe wrote:
> > I must say, that seems a bit extreme, given that anyone with physical
> > access to the machines could, in a pinch, re-password root to whatever
> > she wants. If it were me, I would not write down the root passwords
> > *anywhere*; I'd just put a note in some obscure place that "If you
> > need to change the root password, boot using Toms and vipw away."
> > Not sure that would be possble on NT, though. Come to think of it,
> > is there any way at all to recover from admin password lossage on
> > NT?
> 
> There sure is :
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
> 
> Benjie
> -- 
> "There are only 2 kinds of hard drive, those that have failed, and those
> that will fail."
> 
> James B. Godfrey

And I can attest to that utilities effectiveness.  I have it burned on 2
CDs that I keep around.  It's amazing the number of times students
install Windows 2000 Pro, and forget their admin password!

L8r
-- 
Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127

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