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

[Jonathan Rickman]

On 30 Jan 2003, 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?


chntpw is a very effective tool. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
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