[ILUG] Re: strange but true

[Robert Sweetnam]

I actually have it, being in my job (An NT Administrator) you have to have
precautions. I can e-mail it to any one who wants it. But be warned, I will
not accept any responsibility  for anny damage or loss of information
arising from its use.

Regards
Robert Sweetnam
----- Original Message -----
From: Jimmy O'Regan <Jim.Regan at lit.ie>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: strange but true


> Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > the admin dept. at a certain company well known to me (hint) are rather
> > fearful of anything that isn't NT.
> >
> > anway, a colleague of mine who has a habit of changing/deleting things
> > (especially when he doesn't know what they do), changed the name of
> > computer. Of course it being part of an NT domain, once you change the
> > name you can't login anymore.
>
> ...unless you change the machine account name on the domain controller.
Had to
> do it for my Dad's office when the company who set up the network, after
being
> told this is X persons machine, this is Y's, name them Office1 Office2
etc. He
> also got me to install Linux on his machine, cause he was sick of NT's
crashing
> and GUI, and wanted a nice stable command line. My Dad rocks.
>
> > so a chappy from the admin dept. came down. he looked at it. tried his
> > admin password, and it didn't work - my colleague had changed the admin
> > password to something he couldn't remember anymore!
>
> > the chap from admin went off and came back with a "NT rescue disk" and
> > stuck it in the machine and powered it on. the machine started booting
> > off the floppy and what came up on the screen:
>
> > Loading Linux.....
>
> Yeah, that sums up my experience with NT administrators - don't label
disks,
> don't read disk labels.
>
> I think I'll have to start making Linux install disks, name them
"Emergency
> Repair Disk" and leave them lying around the place *hehehe*
>
> > the "NT rescue disk" was in fact a linux boot floppy that runs a script
> > which lets prompts for the partition of the NT system, which password
> > you want changed to what. and voila...
>
> Any chance of a copy? Says a lot for NT's C2 security doesn't it?
>
>
>
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