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

[Benjie Godfrey]

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
Systems Administrator
Layton Graphics, Inc.
Marietta, Georgia, USA
www.layton-graphics.com

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