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Help! NT Backoffice admin password

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by keith

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Our network admin has left and we cannot get into our NT network.

Is there any way to bypass the admin password
or assign a new one?

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by chriswales

Call and beg them for the password.
Any other users have admin rights? If so, use that account to re-set the password. Otherwise it's tough/impossible to find it out.

by joseph moore

I have posted this answer a couple of times before. There is a way (albeit a little drastic) to hack into NT and bypass security so you can reset the Administrator password (or any password). Here is a URL to keep:
http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips262.shtml

This link will take you to a page with a few different ways of bypassing NT security to change the Admin password. Scroll down to just halfway down the page. Look at the section that talks about installing a second copy of NT on a machine, and changing the LOGON.SCR file. That is the method I have done that works great!
It really freaked out the Security officer where I worked!

This is, of course, the above suggestion does not work for you. Your previous admin should tell youwhat the password is unless he/she is a jerk!

Hope this helps.

by maz1980

Use this trick:
NT always run spooler service at startup on system privilidge. Shutdown your BO server, put the harddrive on another computer to rename spools.exe as spools.old and musrmgr(the user manager program) as spools.exe. Then retrun the hdon the bo server and boot. User manager will run on system privilidge on which you can change the admin password

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