Tom, I'll respond off-list with a process I used in a similar situation a few years ago...off-list since it does border on "hacking" but since you have physical access to these boxes it should work.
Regards, Lou Finally, South Carolina gets a code camp! For details, or to sign up, please visit http://www.gcnug.org/codecamp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:00 PM To: activedirectory Subject: [ActiveDir] lots of issues This company is in a jam i've yet to have seen. They outsourced AD/Exchange and when they tried to get it back, the outsource firm demoted their DC's that are phyisically present at the company. some of these former DC's dhcp and dns. now no one knows the local admin password and connectivity between the root has been severed. no one wants to go the linux pw disk route because they can't reboot the server. there's no way i can get local system access to this server that i can think of. is there any other way to change or get the local admin password of what is now essentially a stand alone server? i know this is bodering on "hacking" so i understand if i get no response. just curious if there is a way to do this without a server reboot. thanks a lot. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
