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Re: Windows XP authentification
From: Jonathan Bloomquist <jsbloom () adelphia net>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 14:14:11 -0400
On Friday 06 September 2002 07:33, HalbaSus wrote:
Now I don't know if this is a vulnerability, a feature or a bug.. but it's certanly anoying. On my home PC I have Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.6. Yesterday XP crashed because of a scandisk process (on somedoy's else hdd). I removed the other hdd and booted windows XP... "Your password has expired and must be changed" But... Neither the Administrator account's password or my user password didn't worked. Making imposible to log in. I booted in FreeBSD mounted the windows drive and everything seems fine... BTW, I instaled Windows XP as an upgrade to a previous windows 98 could this be the problem ? Does anybody know where the password file is located ? Does anybody know what could have caused this ? (maybe the password file got damaged (yet scandisk and fsck did not reported any damaged files))
I don't know what might have caused that, but you might try LinNT to overwrite the administrator password: http://www.nttoolbox.com/public/tools/LinNT.zip
Current thread:
- Windows XP authentification HalbaSus (Sep 06)
- Re: Windows XP authentification Chris Carey (Sep 07)
- Re: Windows XP authentification Jonathan Bloomquist (Sep 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Windows XP authentification Shockro (Sep 08)
- RE: Windows XP authentification Thor Larholm (Sep 10)