RE: Question regarding admin passwords on sbs.
- From: "Tony Su" <TonySu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:31:01 -0800
Hello,
Besides Edward's excellent post,
There are cracking apps which given enough time will recover your
password(s) like Lopht.
I'd also ask you to reconsider disabling the Administrator account, either
you misunderstood the recommendation or you received bad advice. Best
Practices should be to configure the Administrator's account with an
<extremely> strong password, then never use it except in a real emergency (it
should be your backdoor, not your Waterloo). Never disabled. Then, as you
describe create another account with Domain Admin privileges for your regular
use.
--
Tony Su
www.su-networking.com
ISA
SBS
Enterprise Mobile Solutions Architect
"Edward Tian" wrote:
> Hi:
> Thank you for posting here.
>
> From the description, I understand that you have disable the default admin
> account and create a new user with admin permission. You forgot the admin
> password so that the SBS Server is inaccessible currently. If I am off
> base, please do let me know.
>
> The SBS security model is based on the Microsoft Windows Server security
> model. This security model requires a user name and password before access
> to the computer is granted. Even Microsoft has no solution to *Crack* the
> Active Directory password. This is for your system security.
>
> Generally, the administrator password is lost, forgotten, or unknown, the
> operating system needs to be reinstalled, if there is no backup. If there
> are no other users with administrative access, there is no way to recover
> the password. In other words, the only solution is to reinstall the system.
>
> Based on my experience, you could use the following third-party utility to
> reset the domain admin password.
>
> http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_password_in_windows_server_2003_ad
> .htm
>
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> Thanks for your understanding. Have a nice day!
>
> Best Regards
> Edward Tian(MSFT)
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> | Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:02:14 -0600
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> | I've been experimenting with a SBS 2003, and find myself now in a
> quandry.
> | As per best practices, I created an user account and gave this user
> | account admin (enterprise, local, domain. etc) rights. As per best
> | practices, I disabled the default Administrator account. No other user
> | accounts have admin access. Non-admin users cannot login the sbs server
> | interactively. As you might have guessed, I have forgotten the password
> to
> | the account of the user with admin rights. Resetting the Administrators
> | password would not help because the account is disabled.
> |
> | Is there a way of accessing the server with admin rights without having
> to
> | reinstall the whole OS?
> | Is there a way to reset the password to the user with admin rights?
> |
> | Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> |
>
>
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