I was wondering if there was a way you could reset a webmaster's password on
an individual domain.  I found out that you can use the "owsadm -o users -c
<add/del/changepassword> -u <username> [-p <port>]" command to reset
passwords.  Can you use the "-m" parameter in this situation?  We host aroun
d
30 domains, and since all domains have a "webmaster" account, wouldn't using
that command without the "-m" for the "webmaster" account reset all
passwords?  I know that reinstalling the extensions will reset the password,
but I think that's a very inefficient way to reset a password, especially if
it's a multi-user web.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!

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"ryanh" <ryanh@discussions.microsoft.com> writes:

> I was wondering if there was a way you could reset a webmaster's password 
on
> an individual domain.  I found out that you can use the "owsadm -o users -
c
> <add/del/changepassword> -u <username> [-p <port>]" command to reset
> passwords.  Can you use the "-m" parameter in this situation?  We host aro
und
> 30 domains, and since all domains have a "webmaster" account, wouldn't usi
ng
> that command without the "-m" for the "webmaster" account reset all
> passwords?  I know that reinstalling the extensions will reset the passwor
d,
> but I think that's a very inefficient way to reset a password, especially 
if
> it's a multi-user web.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!

Not sure what version of unix you are using, but after the
extensions are installed on a site you should have a _vti_pvt directory
and in there you will see a service.pwd file.

It is in the standard .htaccess format so you can use the unix
htpasswd command, giving it that file name to modify a password directly.

Hope this helps!

--
John
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Thank you very much!!!!  That will help us out a lot!!!

We are using is Debian 2.95.4, kernel 2.4.29, FrontPage 2002.  (I suppose
that would've been helpful for me to put that in my inital post)

"John Murtari" wrote:

> "ryanh" <ryanh@discussions.microsoft.com> writes:
> 
>
>        Not sure what version of unix you are using, but after the
> extensions are installed on a site you should have a _vti_pvt directory
> and in there you will see a service.pwd file.
>
>        It is in the standard .htaccess format so you can use the unix
> htpasswd command, giving it that file name to modify a password directly.
>
>        Hope this helps!
>
> --
>                                           John
>  ________________________________________
___________________________
> John Murtari                              Software Workshop Inc.
> jmurtari@following domain 315.635-1968(x-211)  "TheBook.Com" (TM)
> http://thebook.com/
>

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