Comments on: How to reset admin password for Sophos NAC Advanced http://www.takeabyte.com.au/2008/09/how-to-reset-admin-password-for-sophos-nac-advanced/ Helping the IT Crowd Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:24:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SteveO http://www.takeabyte.com.au/2008/09/how-to-reset-admin-password-for-sophos-nac-advanced/comment-page-1/#comment-3733 SteveO Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:44:24 +0000 http://www.takeabyte.com.au/?p=73#comment-3733 Oddly copy and paste went a bit wrong there, the ? in that command should be a ' :) Oddly copy and paste went a bit wrong there, the ? in that command should be a ‘ :)

]]> By: SteveO http://www.takeabyte.com.au/2008/09/how-to-reset-admin-password-for-sophos-nac-advanced/comment-page-1/#comment-3731 SteveO Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:40:05 +0000 http://www.takeabyte.com.au/?p=73#comment-3731 This will also work for the Sophos NAC that is bundled with Endpoint Security and Control There is however an error in the command you have posted, if you have installed the NAC databases to the default instance on the local machine the command should be: osql -E -S .\ -d SecurityStore -Q “update EF_Account set setPassword =’1? where name =’Admin’” If you have used a named instance, like when you install the integrated NAC databases, you generally have a sophos instance, the command should look like this: osql -E -S .\SOPHOS -d SecurityStore -Q “update EF_Account set setPassword =’1? where name =’Admin’” If you are not running the command locally on the machine where the NAC databases are hosted, you will need to replace the . for the server name, e.g. osql -E -S server\SOPHOS -d SecurityStore -Q “update EF_Account set setPassword =’1? where name =’Admin’” This will also work for the Sophos NAC that is bundled with Endpoint Security and Control

There is however an error in the command you have posted, if you have installed the NAC databases to the default instance on the local machine the command should be:

osql -E -S .\ -d SecurityStore -Q “update EF_Account set setPassword =’1? where name =’Admin’”

If you have used a named instance, like when you install the integrated NAC databases, you generally have a sophos instance, the command should look like this:

osql -E -S .\SOPHOS -d SecurityStore -Q “update EF_Account set setPassword =’1? where name =’Admin’”

If you are not running the command locally on the machine where the NAC databases are hosted, you will need to replace the . for the server name, e.g.

osql -E -S server\SOPHOS -d SecurityStore -Q “update EF_Account set setPassword =’1? where name =’Admin’”

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