Re: Logon Passwords

From: Alun Jones [MSFT] (alunj_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/26/04

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    "Wrong again" <Wrong again@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:8C53DC24-A4EC-4577-B661-A38F2898C0BC@microsoft.com...
    > WRONG.
    >
    > XP security is not the tightest. I've been here two minutes and everybody
    is asking how to login without the password and the typical response is you
    can't. Well guess what you can...
    >
    > www.lostpassword.com has a tool to reset the admin password. When you
    login as admin you can then change the other user passwords. I've done this
    lots of times. This tool is not free to download so if you need it just
    once it's not worth buying it.

    Matthew's guilty of the cardinal sin of "talking in simple language, and
    thereby upsetting the pedant".

    Yes, you're right - physical access, the ability to boot from your chosen
    removable disk (be that a floppy or a CD), trumps just about everything.
    That includes Windows, Linux, Unix, and many other systems. If you can get
    close enough to the machine to stick your own choice of bootable media into
    it, and then cause it to reboot (that power switch is usually good enough),
    you can overwrite data stored on the hard drive of the operating system.

    However, Matthew's right in the very general and usual sense that you
    cannot, within Windows XP, logon without a user name and a password.

    It's rather disingenuous of you to alarm people by suggesting that the
    password scheme is broken, and only broken in Windows. Please post
    information, not alarmism.

    Alun.
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