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A question regarding admin rights and passwords for sbs Spamaway 11-30-2005
Posted by Spamaway on November 30, 2005, 7:36 pm
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I've been experimenting with a SBS 2003, and find myself now in a quandry.
As per best practices, I created an user account and gave this user
account admin (enterprise, local, domain. etc) rights. As per best
practices, I disabled the Administrator account. No other user accounts
have admin access. Non-admin users cannot login the sbs server
interactively. As you might have guessed, I have forgotten the password to
the account of the user with admin rights. Resetting the Administrators
password would not help because the account is disabled.

Is there a way of accessing the server with admin rights without having to
reinstall the whole OS? Is there a way to reset the password to the user
with admin rights?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted by Steven L Umbach on December 1, 2005, 12:41 am
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You should be able to logon to the administrator account in Safe Mode
assuming you still know that password. --- Steve


"Spamaway gmail.com>" <spam.of.pert---> wrote in message
> I've been experimenting with a SBS 2003, and find myself now in a quandry.
> As per best practices, I created an user account and gave this user
> account admin (enterprise, local, domain. etc) rights. As per best
> practices, I disabled the Administrator account. No other user accounts
> have admin access. Non-admin users cannot login the sbs server
> interactively. As you might have guessed, I have forgotten the password to
> the account of the user with admin rights. Resetting the Administrators
> password would not help because the account is disabled.
>
> Is there a way of accessing the server with admin rights without having to
> reinstall the whole OS? Is there a way to reset the password to the user
> with admin rights?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!



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