Re: Windows XP authentification

From: Chris Carey (security@sublimespot.com)
Date: 09/07/02 

From: Chris Carey <security@sublimespot.com>
To: HalbaSus <halbasus@go.ro>, vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
Date: 06 Sep 2002 15:59:44 -0700

The cause doesn't make any sense to me, but here is the answer..

recovery cd
http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/
recovery disk
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 04:33, HalbaSus wrote:
> Now I don't know if this is a vulnerability, a feature or a bug.. but it's
> certanly anoying. On my home PC I have Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.6. Yesterday
> XP crashed because of a scandisk process (on somedoy's else hdd). I removed
> the other hdd and booted windows XP... "Your password has expired and must be
> changed"
> But... Neither the Administrator account's password or my user password didn't
> worked. Making imposible to log in. I booted in FreeBSD mounted the windows
> drive and everything seems fine... BTW, I instaled Windows XP as an upgrade
> to a previous windows 98 could this be the problem ? Does anybody know where
> the password file is located ?
> Does anybody know what could have caused this ? (maybe the password file got
> damaged (yet scandisk and fsck did not reported any damaged files))
>
>
>
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