Chicken and egg - how do I get back in to server?

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Hello

Please forgive my lack of knowledge of Domino system administration but…

I upgraded my client and server from D5 to D6.

Server and client run on the same machine and I have the administration client installed too.

Problem is that when I try to log in to the server it says that the server does not contain a certificate capable of identfying me, or something to that effect anyway.

Even worse, I have no other ID’s to get on to this server. In total I have the server.id, the cert.id and the user id that the server no longer recognises.

So how do I create a new user since I do not have an ID that I can attach to the server with? Notes won’t let me user the server id to attach to the server so it seems that unless I can find a way to create a new user or find some other workaround (is there any way to cross certify the id that has stopped working?), I’m cactus.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Andrew

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Subject: Chicken and egg - how do I get back in to server?

what exactly is the error message when you try to login?Assumingly your “certificate” has expired (every Notes ID has a defined length of validity - in time - which you can of course modify when registering). Apart from that, if you have not implemented a consistent ACL, it is possible to shut down your Domino Server and add another person to the admin group and recertify your user.id.

In your case i can not tell if it works, cause you apparently have no other user. I would try to bring down the server, add manually a new user and give it manager rights on names.nsf. Then try to login with that user and recertify your admin.