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RE: WinXP Admin login
From: "Timothy Donahue" <tdonahue () Haynes-Group com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:13:17 -0500
I have never had this problem, but removing the workstation from the domain, and adding back onto the domain should fix it. Tim Donahue
-----Original Message----- From: Shah H (Comp) [mailto:03004309 () glam ac uk] Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 9:38 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: WinXP Admin login Importance: High Greetings to everyone on the group. I have come up with an old issue of the WinXP Admin Login which was discussed earlier sometime back on the group. The problem is that I have used the Linux boot disk and have successfully changed the local Administrator account of the Windows XP box (works gr8 for that purpose.) After making this change I was able to log on with the Local Admin account with the changed password but no longer could logon locally using a using any Domain user account, which was working fine earlier to resetting the password using the Linux boot disk. To confirm the same I ran through the same process on another box where I noticed the same problem as well and Logon locally with the domain user account failed. Has anyone come across the same problem and could anyone throw some light on the issue. Cheers, Harshang Shah -----Original Message----- From: Steven Vallarian [mailto:svallarian () csa1 com] Sent: 18 November 2003 23:09 To: Scanga, Gary; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: WinXP Admin login Yup. Use this: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ to create a linux boot disk, boot off of the boot disk and change the admin password to blank (or whatever) Works fine with XP/2000, but it will botch up any EFS-encrypted files. Good Luck. Steven Vallarian MCSE, IBM CATE (AIX) Central Service Association -----Original Message----- From: Scanga, Gary [mailto:gary.scanga () attws com] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:07 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: WinXP Admin login Other than use the WinXP installation disc, is there another way to re-capture Admin privileges on a machine that was previously given a password for the Admin account? -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --- -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- ---- -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------
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Current thread:
- RE: WinXP Admin login Shah H (Comp) (Dec 15)
- Re: WinXP Admin login Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Dec 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: WinXP Admin login Timothy Donahue (Dec 15)