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RE: restore Administrator password
From: "Nathan Hall" <halln () otc edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:44:23 -0500
I tried the net user command using your method on a test machine. When I try, it get access denied. Is there anything else I should try to be able to do this from a Windows command prompt without any special tools? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nathaniel Hall Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking 417-799-0552 -----Original Message----- From: ZEN [mailto:KIRPAGULATI () HOTMAIL COM] Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 4:47 AM To: sec; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: restore Administrator password umm.....if u use something of a pasword cracker...and the admin guy used a decent password of about 8 characters or so that are not directly out of a dictionary....u could get stuck for along long time cracking the password. Go along with the bd040116/cd040116 file i mentioned in an earlier mail to do it for you. Heres another way i found you could do it(i fiddle a lot with system files). Goto your system32 directory and create a backup of logon.scr and then delete it!!! now rename cmd.exe(make a backup of this also) as logon.scr. Now logoff your computer and leave it on for abt 20 mins(patience it'll happen).Now instead of running the screensaver your OS will run an unprtected command prompt where you can use the command : "net user <name of admin a/c> <new password>" (Note you do not need the old password to change it!!!!) This will not work while your logged on as another user as it will return an error saying that you do not have sufficient right. But before logging in there are no restrictions created ;-) It works in XP which is just a build up on Win2000/NT so it should work in your system. Best of luck cracking the password. -ZEN ----- Original Message ----- From: "sec" <sec () moomia com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:35 AM Subject: Re: restore Administrator password
What you need is a knopix CD from knoppix.org and get something like
lophtcack or caine
and able and you will be able to crack the password. Depending on the password strength this could be done in a couple of
seconds or some minutes.
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- RE: restore Administrator password, (continued)
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