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RE: restore Administrator password
From: SMiller () unimin com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:42:55 -0400
The resolved address for this url (64.74.96.248) is in a block owned by internap.com, which is flagged by Spews, Blackholes.us and FiveTen as spammer support. YMMV. Scott "If sports is the opiate of the masses, reality TV is the crack cocaine." "Psyiode" <psyiodedaphreak@ang To: "Huddleston, James E SPC, S-2" <james.huddleston () us army mil>, elfire.com> security-basics () securityfocus com cc: 04/26/2004 05:41 PM Fax to: Please respond to Subject: RE: restore Administrator password psyiodedaphreak The Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) has a nice utility to allow you to reset the Admin or any other accounts passwords. It also have many other utilities for HDs, partitioning, boot managers, mem diagnostics, bios password recovery, and antivirus. All on one nice bootable cd. A must have. -Psyiode -- On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:10:07 Maher Odeh wrote:
Hi I wouldn't suggest deleting the SAM file, indeed it was possible perior to SP2 and it didn't cause any problem, Last time I deleted the SAM to restore a password my machine crashed and I couldn't get beyond the logon window As I got the blue screen of death with many error dumps regarding the SAM file missing ... I would suggest / recommend ERD software , a very good software included in the Winternals Adminstrator's pack Using this software you can create a bootable CD to recover everything you want, the bootable CD looks excatly like WindowsXP There's a utility there called password smith , this utility will help you to CHANGE your users passwords and your own password Instead of deleteing the SAM file and get in troubles :-) //Maher -----Original Message----- From: Huddleston, James E SPC, S-2 [mailto:james.huddleston () us army mil] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:56 PM To: 'security-basics () securityfocus com' Subject: restore Administrator password Depending on the size of your company, you could have them purchase a program called NTFSPro, it allows you to boot to dos and mount the NTFS partition, then you just have to delete the sam file, it will reset the admin password to blank, but it deletes all other accounts as well. If you write a script to run at bootup you can have it create a new account with admin rights, then instead of deleting the sam file, just rename it, after you create the script, re-rename the sam file back and login with the newly created administrative account. Huddleston, James E. -----Original Message----- From: ZEN To: sec; security-basics () securityfocus com Sent: 4/18/2004 11:47 AM 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 passwordWhat you need is a knopix CD from knoppix.org and get something likelophtcack or caineand able and you will be able to crack the password. 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