Re: [PLUG] Linux boot disk to replace XP Admin password?

["Edward M. Corrado" <ecorrado@athena.rider.edu>]

Thanks Paul,

I'll check it out. If it works with NTFS, I can'tr see why ot wouldn't
work with FAT.

Ed C.

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com wrote:

> 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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