Netscape Fasttrack Server: lost Admin acct name & passwd

[Robert Gamble]

The UNIX Admin and webmaster for a webserver are no longer employed here, and no one knows the Admin acct name or its passwd. Is there a file I can edit to reset both ?

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

The files you want are in :

/opt/ns-ftrack/admin-serv/config

and they are

admpw
ns-admin.conf

Goodluck.

[Eddie Warren]

Hi Robert,
Unless it's been disabled you should be able to boot single user mode and change your root password. During the boot process it will pause with a 10 second delay to interrupt. Interrupt it and type "bo" for boot, interact with IPL - Yes, at ISL prompt type "HPUX -is" to boot single user. If the system comes up to the "#" prompt, do a "mount -a" then "passwd" to attempt to change the root passwd. Good luck.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Actually, better still, you can reset the fasttrack admin to root and no passwd by the following:

cp /opt/ns-ftrack/newconfig/opt/ns-ftrack/admin-serv/config/admpw /opt/ns-ftrack/admin-serv/config/admpw

cp /opt/ns-ftrack/newconfig/opt/ns-ftrack/admin-serv/config/ns-admin.conf /opt/ns-ftrack/admin-serv/config/ns-admin.conf

good luck.

[Robert Gamble]

Those do seem to be the files that control the admin acct, but coping those files in does not set the root(admin) passwd to "".
What would the contents of admpw file be if the passwd was blank ?

[Brian M. Fisher]

An easy way to set the root password the same as the REAL root password is to duplicate the encrypted password field from either /etc/password or from the /tcb/files/auth/r/root file, if the system is trusted, into the admpw file.

Brian
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[Robert Gamble]

Brian, good idea, but it didn't work.

[Brian M. Fisher]

I should have been more specific. The syntax of the admpw file is:
username:encrypted-password
i.e.
root:28jJNiZkeIkea

If the encrypted password you copied is a password larger than 8 characters I have seen problems. I have also seen problems leaving this field blank. I have eaven had problems when the machine I was using to connect to the admin account was not the server machine.

Let me know if this helps,
Brian
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[Robert Gamble]

I installed FastTrack on a different workstation to see what the default passwd would be. It wasn't 'root' or 'admin' and its not blank.

Does anyone know the default passwd for Fasttrack ?

[Brian M. Fisher]

The password should be the same as that of the user who installed it.

Brian
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