Ref: 16530015
Title: Recovering the Admin Password
Date: 2/25/90

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

If you have deleted the admin user from your data base and all other
admins have forgotten their passwords, how do you grant admin access to
the server without deleting the NET.ACC file?

There are a couple of ways to do this.

1.  Log on as the server name user and do net admin activities that way.
If you have a tape drive you should have a server user that is an
admin.

2.  Bring the server up in a 3C connection and edit the STARTUP.CMD file.
At the end of the STARTUP.CMD file, type NET USER USERNAME /PRIVILEGE:ADMIN
The "username" can be any existing user on the server.  This will make
username an admin.

If you still have the admin user, bring the server up in a 3C
connection and run Netsetup.  By running Netsetup, you will create a
SRVUSER.CMD file in the ..\PROFILE subdirectory of the server.  The
SRVUSER.CMD file will have the following command in it:

NET USER ADMIN "PASSWORD"

The password is the one you set for Netsetup.

Upon rebooting the server, STARTUP.CMD will check to see if the
SRVUSER.CMD file exists.  If it does exist, it is executed and then
deleted.  The admin (if the user has not been deleted) now has the new
password that you assigned it.

