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

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Jan 30 22:17:36 EST 2003


Yep! That's the one! Great tool. It ranks up there with Toms Root Boot
in terms of need to always have available.

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
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