Norton Parental Control Password

[ben1390]

I have forgotton the password that i set for the parental control user accounts. Is there anyway of overcoming this problem?

[paul11974]

Originally Posted by topcreator

I have forgotton the password that i set for the parental control user accounts. Is there anyway of overcoming this problem?

no

[basa]

The OP seems very forgetful. This is his 3rd post (out of three) that is asking how to retrieve passwords ??

yeah I thought I seen his nick before, I answered his last one altho that was for Norton Internet Security !!

Are you per chance a tad young and tryin to bypass daddies passwords?

The best way to reset Norton is to put the install disc back in and one of the very first options is to reset password.

[ben1390]

I am of the forgetful type, especially when i set strong passwords

32, married and 2 kids is not 'a tad young', i do not live with my 'daddie' and I am not 'tryin to bypass daddies passwords'

My 3 posts since joining CF were not all about forgotton passwords

But thank you for your advice and the problem is now sorted

Did you remember it or was there another way?

Originally Posted by topcreator

I am of the forgetful type, especially when i set strong passwords

32, married and 2 kids is not 'a tad young', i do not live with my 'daddie' and I am not 'tryin to bypass daddies passwords'

My 3 posts since joining CF were not all about forgotton passwords

But thank you for your advice and the problem is now sorted

setting 'strong' passwords has been imposed on us at work - a right pain, but it exposes my laziness. I usually rotate 3 passwords which mix upper/lower case as well as a number or two, our system looks back over the last 4, so I had to make a new one, today .... bet I forget it

[ben1390]

Originally Posted by gaffer_gump

Did you remember it or was there another way?

I toook your advice by putting the disc in and choosing the re-set password option

[Anonymouse]

Originally Posted by homealone

setting 'strong' passwords has been imposed on us at work - a right pain, but it exposes my laziness. I usually rotate 3 passwords which mix upper/lower case as well as a number or two, our system looks back over the last 4, so I had to make a new one, today .... bet I forget it

Think yourself lucky you're not on VAX/VMS, then. VMS remembers every password, and since VMS 5 (can't remember where they're up to now), once a password expires or is changed, it can never be used again, by anyone. Not even the sysops can do anything about that; the password file is encrypted, it moves around randomly on the system disk and there is no command in VMS that allows them to access it at all; only the system itself can do that. The most they can do is to reset a password to a default if a user forgets - and to maintain security, the reset password expires immediately the user logs in and s/he is required to set a new password.

Originally Posted by Anonymouse

Think yourself lucky you're not on VAX/VMS, then. VMS remembers every password, and since VMS 5 (can't remember where they're up to now), once a password expires or is changed, it can never be used again, by anyone. Not even the sysops can do anything about that; the password file is encrypted, it moves around randomly on the system disk and there is no command in VMS that allows them to access it at all; only the system itself can do that. The most they can do is to reset a password to a default if a user forgets - and to maintain security, the reset password expires immediately the user logs in and s/he is required to set a new password.

it's ok, just save it as a text file in your profile