Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: How to break NW 2.15c security (login as super) Message-ID: <1991Mar18.101859.3136@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 17 Mar 91 21:18:59 GMT References: <1991Mar16.022726.3852@vpnet.chi.il.us> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 32 In article <1991Mar16.022726.3852@vpnet.chi.il.us>, kji@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ken Isacson) writes: > In article todd@Quotron.COM (Todd Booth) writes: >>One of our NetWare supervisors left with the only password >>and we can't get to all our files. >> >>Can someone point me to a vendor or ftp site carrying software >>to break the Novell security. >> > > Todd - I was informed if you contact a NOVELL certified technician, they > can go in with a HEX disk editor, and fix this up for you. > > Contact NOVELL on who to call in your area. Or if you are brave enough you can do it yourself with disked. Simply rename the bindery file in the first fat (its in the first 100 or so sectors of the disk usually) and when you bring the server back up, it will complain that its fat entries are inconsistent. This is ok since it takes the first as gospel and mathes the other(s) to it, and creates a new virgin bindery with an unpassword protected supervisor account. It does work, I've done it twice so far, last year on an ANW 2.15A server. -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================