my administrator id password is lost and i tried the procedure in Ask Ben archives ( e-promag.com - This website is for sale! - e promag Resources and Information. ) which adds another user to the administrator group on names.nsf database copied locally and the modified file recopied to the server but whenever i restart the server, domino crashes. does anyone know what could be wrong or any other alternative procedure that works? thanks,Ola
Subject: reposting - my administrator id password is lost
Ola, You may be able to recreate your admin account.
Complete the following: Open your Certification Log and delete out any references to the Admin account. If you don’t have a certification log, don’t worry. Just skip that step. Open the person document for the administator account. Copy the First Name, Last Name, Username, Shortname, Mail Server, and Mail File Path into Notepad. Close the person document. Delete the person document. Important!!!Do not use the Delete Person action. This will set off the AdminP process to delete the person. You do not want to do this. Instead, use the Delete Key to delete the Person document (just like deleting an e-mail from your inbox).
Now that there is not an entry in the Certification Log or in the Domino Directory. You can register the Administrator account again. Make sure when you recreate the user, you use the EXACT first name, Last Name, and Username for the account. This will create the correct ID for this individual with a password that you choose. Make sure when you register the administator account you specify a mail system of “None”. This way the registration process won’t try and create a new mail database for the administator account.
After you have successfully registered the user, you can modify the Person document to change the mail system to Lotus Notes, add the correct mail domain, mail server and mail file path. You do not need to worry about adding the new Admin account to any groups or ACLs of databases. Because you created the admin account with the same name and did not delete this account using the AdminP process, all of this information will still be in place.
Hope this helps.
Kevin
Subject: reposting - my administrator id password is lost
Ola
Am concerned that the server crashed when you changed the Administrator name.
Have you checked the Notes.ini for Keyfilename= line? If this is pointing at your old admin user id, it would cause the server to crash when you started it if the file is not found…
The Keyfilename variable “goes with” the ServerKeyfilename variable - I believe in 6 they should not be used, but you may need to search this forum for more info on that one!
Hope this helps
Paula
Subject: RE: reposting - my administrator id password is lost
thanks, finally solved it, i copied an old version of the admin id with a known password from backups, stopped domino service, copied names.nsf to the local workstation and opened it with Notes, clicked thru to Security tab on the Server configuration document and changed “Check passwords on Notes ID” to disabled. saved changes and recopied names.nsf to the server, restarted domino service, changed the administrator password and reenabled “Check passwords on Notes ID”. http process failed to run but found it was due to file ownership - the scp client changed the file ownership of names.nsf to root, i changed it to domino and all was fine, thanks all.