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by dragon katie

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I am the division "guru" and am havign a security issue everyone has everyone elses password. I have been told informally of soem pretty severe security breaches but no one will file a report. The "reason" everyoen has everyone has everyoen elses password is due to absense and acces to email doccumentation on pending orders etc.
is there anyway i can reset the password remotely rather than bothering the netadmin everytime someone is out so i can institiute a dont ask dont tell password policy?

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by daven71

The solution depends on the definition of remotely. If you are speaking of terms as far as from home, you would need to have a connection to your network. You could use PCAnywhere. If you are on in an office where the net admin isn't located, you could easily reset passwords as well. First, the netadmin while have to add you to the administrators group on the domain. Then you need to have Usermgr loaded on your PC. I am a net admin and I have a NT workstation at my desk, but I also have a laptop for remote use running windows 98. You can still load usermgr on a win9x PC. I got the .exe off a Windows 95 CD. It is located in the Win95 directory on the disc. He should be able to limit your rights, but don't be suprised if he says no. Netadmins panic when others have any change rights to groups and users :)

by cavedweller

Telnet to the system and run the passwd utility as the superuser. You will have to do this for each user on each system which manages its own accounts.

Note: Using NIS (YP) would make the job a little easier as you could centrally manage passwords. Different unixes come with different bundled tools.

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