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Question : Can you change a users password from the console on a Netware 4.11 or 5 server?
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I'm asking if there's a way to change a users password from the console command line? We have two Netware servers still around, one's running 4.11 the other is running 5, both are using NDS rather than the Bindery. I can get to the command line on both of them and both have the admin user logged into them. If you need more info let me know.
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Answer : Can you change a users password from the console on a Netware 4.11 or 5 server?
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Yeah, well, as you may have figured out, NetWare isn't like Windows. It's not intended to be managed from the server console. Being a client/server environment, it's expected that you'd use client based management tools.
Modern NetWare uses web-based management tools. Thin client, but still client/server.
As indicated here, there's a not-Novell-supported freeware utility Bill mentioned, and in the newer of the 2, a GUI console with a relatively-crippled ConsoleOne capability as PsiCop mentioned, but most NetWare folx never think of going into the server room to change a user's password - they just open iManager or C1 (or nwadmn32 for older systems) on their own PC while sitting at their desk.
Is there a reason you can't do that - like, for example, someone thought it necessary to remove the Novell client from all PC's and use the crippled crapware(tm) client that ships with Windows instead, and now nwadmn32 no longer works?
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