Resetting passwords

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
-u [-p ]" command to reset
passwords. Can you use the "-m" parameter in this situation? We host around
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!

Re: Resetting passwords

"ryanh" 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
> -u [-p ]" command to reset
> passwords. Can you use the "-m" parameter in this situation? We host around
> 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!

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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Re: Resetting passwords

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" 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
> > -u [-p ]" command to reset
> > passwords. Can you use the "-m" parameter in this situation? We host around
> > 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!
>
> 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/
>