Re: Admin Password Recovery

From: Xaos Flux (xaosflux@bellsouth.net)
Date: 08/20/02 

From: "Xaos Flux" <xaosflux@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:38:38 -0400

For a large system I would recomend GHOST image software for all local
machines. With many irresposable users on your machines they are bound to
get corrupted.

Brian Mulrooney
Network Administrator
Riverside National Bank

"Stephen Souza" <ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net> wrote in message
news:Xns926F88CD8CA89StephenSouzausanet@209.189.89.243...
> "tj woods" <twoods@roxbury.org> wrote in
> news:3f3301c24789$4836fc90$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11:
>
> > Hi,
> > I work for a public school system and one of the kids
> > changed the Admin password aon a windows 2000, SP2
> > computer. We have policy in place on our domain, but this
> > was done before the computer joined. We have a lot of
> > software installed and would like to not have to reinstall
> > it all. Any ideas on how to recover the password? Thanks.
>
> Subject: Re: forgot admin password
>
> a. http://www.sysinternals.com - ERD Commander 2002
> b. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
> c. http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/
> d. http://www.nmrc.org/files/snt/index.html
> e. http://www.sunbelt-software.com - NTAccess
> f. http://www.2600slc.org/texts/SAM_Files.txt
>
> These tools will allow a reset of the password
> without knowing what the orginal was.
> All require a re-boot of the system.
>
> I have used options a, b, c, d. I like ERD Commander
> but it is expensive, I would suggest trying
> (b) ntpasswd, it does work and is free.
>
> For a school system I would suggest getting ERD commander,
> expensive but good for repair of crashed systems.
>
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> Stephen Souza
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