Re: Decrypting a file
From: Andrew van der Stock (ajv@greebo.net)
Date: 05/13/02
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From: "Andrew van der Stock" <ajv@greebo.net> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:41:38 +1000
If it's a local account and you don't know the password, you're stuffed. The
password reset boot disks don't reset the EFS rekeying information, so
although you can log on, EFS is not resynchronized with this new password,
and you've lost access to the files.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q290260
Andrew
"P. Sosa" <pener9@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have an old file on a NTFS partition (F) that was
> encrypted long ago.
>
> The OS has been rebuilt several times and the machine is
> now a member of an Active Dir. domain. The PC used to be a
> stand alone box.
>
> I have tried to use cipher.exe to decrypt this file but
> keep getting an Access Denied message.
>
> I used efsinfo.exe to see what the recovery agent might
> be. I get an 'unknown' message. I also tried the /u switch
> and saw that an old administrative account of the machine
> had the right to decrypt.
>
> I logged on the local mchine with the same name as the old
> local admin's name but NOT the password since I could not
> remember what it was.
>
> Here are my questions. Without the original password for
> the local admin's account, will I ever be able to decrypt
> this file? Does anyone have an idea how I can get this
> file off the machine so I can access it some other way?
>
> Thank you for your help and ideas.
>
> P. Sosa
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