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Re: [PLUG] Linux boot disk to replace XP Admin password?
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Uh... I have tried this utility. It did not reset the Administrator password
to anything usable. In fact, on an XP Pro SP1 box it rendered the
Administrator password uneditable by normal MMC means.
I did not try just blanking the password though... so that may work. I did
not try the utility on and NT or 2K boxes either, so the utility may work
there as well. I guess I am trying to say "Be careful and be sure to make a
backup of the data before trying this utility". If you cannot get into the
box to make a backup happen then slaving the physical disk in another
machine may work well enough to get at the data -- since it would be mounted
via a box you 'can' get into. Also, this utility does not support
Microsoft's software RAID at all. The XPpro box I tried the utility on had a
normal NTFS partition and not the new NTFS partition type so... I am not
sure if the utility works on NTFS Dynamic Disks either. Again, be careful.
Kam.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux boot disk to replace XP Admin password?
> On 20-Jan-2003, ecorrado@athena.rider.edu wrote:
>
> > I seem to remember hearing about using a Linux boot disk to replace a
> > Windows XP Pro Administrator password. I believe all that was done was
to
> > erase the password some how (much the way you would a password in
> > /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow in Linux. Does anyone know how to do this? Is
> > there is a special program I need to do this? I believe the machine that
> I
> > don't have the password happens to be FAT32 formatted (so that might
make
> > things a little easier. My guess is I just need to edit a certain file
> > (in a certain way), but I'm not sure which one.
>
> You're looking for pnordahl's offline NT password and registry editor boot
> disk, I expect:
>
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>
> It'll handle editing the SAM automatically. I've never tried it with FAT,
> but it works like a champ with NTFS, so I can't see it being a problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
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