Re: Changing Admin Password throughout entire domain

From: Special Access (specialaccess@com.hotbitemail.me)
Date: 03/04/03


From: Special Access <specialaccess@com.hotbitemail.me>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:23:48 GMT


On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:38:25 -0800, "Ryan Lambert"
<invalid@lacking.info> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We've recently been trying to figure out a solution for
>changing the Administrator password throughout the domain,
>without affecting certain Services that may be running off
>of its current credentials. On top of that, I thought to
>change the Administrator login through the domain
>controller security policy, however this too would affect
>services running on Member Servers.
>
>Any ideas?

One way to change the password through the entire domain is to use a
program called Hyena www.systemtools.com However, changing the
password will (sooner or later) affect services using that logon's
credentials.
What services do you have running off the local administrator's
credentials?



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