[OpenAFS] admin password change

[Michael Aldrich]

Thank you very much!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow@dementia.org>
To: "openafs" <openafs-info@openafs.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] admin password change


> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Michael Aldrich wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Is it possible to change the 'admin' password without knowing the
original password? The only other login in UserList does not have privileges
to change the admin password. Problem is, the person who set up our AFS
servers has since left the company, taking the admin password with him. I
tried to change it using steps provided at
http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Support/afs/admin/cellname.html, with no luck.
This server is running the Transarc version. I was able to change the admin
password using the OpenAFS version in a test environment....
> bos shutdown the kaserver on all your db server machines.
>
> make a copy of the kaserver.DB0 files just in case
>
> bos setauth -authrequired no on each db server
> bos start the kaserver on each dbserver
> kas -adm foo
> (type any password)
> setpass admin
> (type any password when prompted for foo's password, then type admin's
> new password twice)
>
> bos setauth -authrequired yes on each dbserver
>
> be paranoid and bos restart everything on the dbservers
>
> done
>
> don't even think of doing this on an untrusted net
>
>
>
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