Re: Dual Boot Linux - WinXP - Mod Admin Passwd for XP?

From: Kenneth A Kauffman (kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com)
Date: 04/10/03 

From: "Kenneth A Kauffman" <kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:46:02 GMT

"Kyle" <kkopp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a2f3b2a6.0304100858.ac9885e@posting.google.com...
> I have a dual boot PC (Linux / XP). For various
> reasons, I can't get into the Admin account on
> the XP side of the disk. Does anyone know of a way
> that I can obtain/reset the admin password on the
> XP side from the Linux side?
>
> I have access to root on Linux and can read the XP
> parition.

You should have the XP admin password. If you do not, then I'm guessing
this is someone else's machine your trying to get in to or it was really not
too brite losing your own admin account password. This is technically an XP
security question and this is not a "how do I hack XP from Linux" group.

ken k

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