Re: Oops - How to recover Administrator password?

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From: Bob Perez (sorry_at_nospamforme.com)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:58:14 -0700

"Neko-" <neko@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:k52nj0hfokmp7chn45hmuo989n53nn52a6@4ax.com...

> Right click on the user you want to reset the password for... Select
> 'Reset Password'
>
> If you do that with an account that has full administrative rights you
> shouldn't have any problems doing that for any account on the domain
> (including the Administrator account).

Yep, found it. Hard to believe that after all the time I've been
administering this network here, I've never had to do that. Thanks both of
you.

Bob

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