Quickly regain administrator access using EmAdmin

The Admin account is the most powerful user object in a NetWare network. If you’ve forgotten the password for the Admin account, or suffered an NDS error that destroyed the Admin account, you can be in deep trouble. Unless you’ve created a backup account with Admin rights, you’re stuck. Fortunately, you can use the EmAdmin utility to quickly create a new Admin account or grant Admin rights to an existing account.

What’s EmAdmin?
EmAdmin will create a user object with Admin rights anywhere in the NDS tree. You can even create user objects within hidden organizational units. You can use it to quickly create a user with Admin rights in case you’ve lost or forgotten the Admin password. Once you’ve created the object, you can then reset the password to the original Admin account.

EmAdmin is a freeware utility, but it’s not written or supported by Novell. EmAdmin was written by Jean-Francois Burdet and is based on a Monster Munch, a utility that creates users with no passwords. Burdet includes the source code with the utility so you can see how it works or make your own modifications if you know how to write C.

Even though Novell doesn’t support the utility, you can obtain it from Novell’s Cool Solutions Web site. In the age of multi-megabyte downloads, EmAdmin may surprise you. It’s only 12 KB in size. That’s kilobytes, not megabytes. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it when you download the emadmin.zip file.