RE: xp professional - local administrator password

["Budzik, Michael J." <budzikmj () purdue edu>]

> Some workstation w/ xp , apeared w/  the administrator ( local ) password
changed , anybody now 
> how i can change that password again , w/ the permissions of a normal
user. 

I do not know of a way to change this from a standard user account.

You can try l0pht crack (http://www.atstake.com/research/lc/)

If the password is guessable via dictionary attack, that will get it.  The
full version can also do brute force.
Brute force attacks take too long.

You can take a look at the following web pages.  They are tools that use a
Linux boot disk to boot the computer and then you can change the password.

http://securityhorizon.com/whitepapers/archives/ntdisk.html
http://home.eunet.no/%7Epnordahl/ntpasswd/
http://www.jms1.net/nt-unlock.html

Be sure to backup everything you can first!

Mike

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