Re: Changing the admin password - help!

[Brent Rossow <brossow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just out of curiosity, what bug in Netscape did this?  Would be nice to know
so others can avoid it in the future!

Thanks,
Brent

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Brent E. Rossow
Educational Technology Specialist
Cooperative Educational Service Agency #12
Ashland, WI 54806
(715) 682-2363 x136 (voice)
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> From: Peter Bengtson <peter.bengtson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: peter.bengtson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:34:42 +0200
> To: itools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Changing the admin password - help!
> 
> Due to a bug in Netscape, my administrator name and password was
> accidentally distributed on a mailing list. Therefore, I tried changing
> the admin password using the iTools web interface, simply by changing
> the password on the Users page, and then by using the iTools
> application's "Set Admin Password" menu item, followed by a restart of
> the computer.
> 
> This resulted in very weird behaviour. I can no longer log in locally as
> the admin user - both the new and the old password is rejected.
> (Resetting the password to the old one makes it possible to log in
> again.) Also, the authentication for realms to which the admin had
> access is also screwed up in the same way. The iTools Manager
> application behaves in the same way.
> 
> Why doesn't this work, why aren't there any instructions anywhere on how
> to proceed if one wants to change the admin password, and what should I do?
> 
>       / Peter Bengtson
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