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Re: Format of SAM File


From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:11:02 -0400

 Looking for a reference that describes the format of the
 windows SAM file.
I believe OphCrack has source available over at SourceForge.

Jeff

On 7/9/09, Hernandez IV, Miguel <miguelher () utep edu> wrote:
All,

 Looking for a reference that describes the format of the windows SAM
 file.  From what I can tell, the first column is the username and third
 column is the password hash, but I want to know what information is
 contained in the other columns.  Google searches on "format windows SAM
 file", "understand windows SAM file", and other related searches have
 proved frustrating.  I should mention that the SAM file was obtained
 using pwdump6 in case that is relevant.  The format I am seeing is as
 follows:

 Username:number:password hash:another hash?:blank:blank:blank

 Any help is much appreciated.

 Miguel


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