Thanks to all who responded. I'm not sure that blanking out the password will do the trick. But I didn't have a good control for experimentation, as it appears that I somehow clobbered my ns-admin.conf file in some subtle way (and wasn't aware at the time I was experimenting with no password in the admpw file). I eventually heard back from a former co-worker, the last person who was involved directly with this NS server, who reminded me that the password should be on the back of his business card, in my wallet. I had already looked at about a dozen cheat sheets that I carry with me at all times. And it was right there. It was when I went back to using the original admpw file that I found that the ns-admin.conf file (I think that's what it's called, I'm not connected to that server now), was messed up, and created a new one by applying changes to a saved copy of the file as it existed when the NS server was installed. Here again, I can't say this with absolute certainty, as I stopped experimentation as soon as I was able to get in to the admin server pages, but it appears that another workaround, if you lose the NS superuser password but have root access to the o/s, would be to set your ip address into the 'hosts' entry of the ns-admin.conf file. This seems to bypass the username/password authentication completely. -- Curt >Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 >Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:07:27 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Curt Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [ND] Netscape Enterprise Server Question > >This is off-topic, but maybe somebody could lend me a hand. > >I have a Netscape Enterprise 3.x server running on solaris, and I don't >have the superuser password to the admin server. I have root access to the >solaris, so I can view/run anything on the box. I can open the netscape >admin server password file, admpw, and see the unencrypted user name and >encrypted password. > >Is there any utility that I can run as root, that would allow me to change >the password, the same as the appropriate section on the web page produced >by the admin server? Or do I need to re-install the Netscape server? > >Thanks for any advice, >-- Curt Springer, Team ND >_________________________________________________________________________ > >For help in using, subscribing, and unsubscribing to the discussion >forums, please go to: http://www.netdynamics.com/support/visitdevfor.html > >For dire need help, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________________ For help in using, subscribing, and unsubscribing to the discussion forums, please go to: http://www.netdynamics.com/support/visitdevfor.html For dire need help, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
