How to retrive IUSR account password ?

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How to retrive IUSR account password ?..

Answer / prasad

1. Open AD Users & Computers. Expand the Users OU,
right-click on the user account
(iusr_servername/iwam_servername) and select 'Reset
password' to reset the password. Note: the password can't
be blank.


2. Open this User Account's properties and make sure
that 'Password never expires' and 'User cannot change
password' are selected.

3. Open IIS from Administrative Tools.

4. Expand servername>Web Sites

5. Right-click on 'Default Web Site' and select Properties.

6. Go to the 'Directory Security' tab and click the Edit
button under 'Authentication & Access Control'

7. Enter the new password you just reset for the
IUSR_servername account and click OK.

8. Enter the password again to confirm and click OK.

9. Click OK.

10. Open a command prompt and run IISRESET

11. At the command prompt, enter the following commands:

1) cd

2) c:\inetpub\adminscripts adsutil SET
w3svc/WAMUserPass “password” (Where password = the
password you entered for the IWAM_servername account in AD
Users & Computers)

3) c:\windows\system32
\cscript.exe "c:\inetpub\adminscripts\synciwam.vbs" –v

4) IISRESET

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How to retrive IUSR account password ?..

Answer / nagesh

IUSR_COMPUTERNAME

OR

iusr_USERNAME

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How to retrive IUSR account password ?..

Answer / rohan kapoor

https port no : 443
http port no : 80

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