Forgot admin password

[FCF]

I have a Netware server 4.11 and not in used for quite a while. Recently, I need to test some applications on the server but unfortunately, I forgot the admin password. Fyi, I don't have any other user ID that has admin equivalent rights, therefore, I could not change the admin password. Pls help.
Thanks.

 

[DrGreen26]

Well, this is not a good thing, if this server is only used for test purposes, teh best thing to do is just blow away the Operating system and re-install. Since no other account has an admin password, novell can unlock the admin account for a small cost and some tedious paperwork that you will need to fill out for them to do it.

BTW, from what I have heard the est. cost is between $250 and $500 dollars.

HTH

Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[salserocito]

Is this v4.11 Server part of a larger NDS Tree, or is it a stand-alone Server in its own NDS Tree?

If this Server is part of a larger Tree, then you should be able to use an Admin level account from a higher location in the Tree to deal with it.

If the Server is all by itself, well thats a different story. If its not in production, I would start fresh.

Also, is this Server ever backed up? If so, what user account was used to accomplish this? Hmmmm....

Good Luck!

 

[tekieVB]

I have a utility that will unlock the account in question, change the password, clear the intruder flag, or create a new user with rights to the root.

I have not used this in a production environment, but it worked on my test environment NW5.1 SP4, NDS 8.79

I have not seen any problems so far. Give a shout if you want a copy. Its freeware! I found it off of one of the Novell GURU sites.

 

[techierick]

I would be interested in that util. Thanks!

Rick Wilkins

 

[salserocito]

I think we all would be interested!!!

 

[FCF]

Thanks guys, and I'm really interested in the utils that mentioned by Jamieb65. Can you pls refer us to that the site that I could download the util? Thanks again for all the suggestions.

 

[mungoblack]

There are some helpful utilities on this site, some of which can create a new Admin user with supervisor rights.

http://www.netwarefiles.com/passmgmt.htm

 

[tekieVB]

Mungoblack has posted the correct link. Thanks MungoBlack, could not remember where I had found it.

I found that the AdminAdd utility works better than the burgular. Burgular adds a user in the current context of the server and gives you rights to the container not the root. AdminAdd gives you rights (all) to the root of the tree. Like I stated in earlier post, I have NOT used this in a production environment - use at your own risk.

However, if you are locked out of your tree, how could it hurt?

 

[FCF]

Wonderful, really appreciate the help that you guys gave.