Re: Administrators Password

From: Stephen Souza (ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: Stephen Souza <ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net>
Date: 30 Sep 2002 16:02:40 -0500

"Tris" <tris@hampsonwilliams> wrote in
news:154701c268b9$d09ddbc0$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl:

> Hi - Stupid question. All 6 machines on my P2P network had
> the same administrators password but noe one of them is
> not accepting it. I have a slight suspicion that a
> discontented employee, who has now left may have changed
> it out of sheer malice ( it happens to be there machine!).
> I have obviously been very studious in making sure I have
> the right case and spelling but to no avail. Bottom line
> is -can I find out what the pw has been set to so that I
> can change it back? This computer is presently unplugged
> and out of bounds as I want to avoid any 'unexpected'
> outside interferance!

Get one of these tools.

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 - bootdisk.bin
e. http://www.nttoolbox.com/public/tools/LinNT.zip
f. http://www.sunbelt-software.com - NTAccess
g. http://www.2600slc.org/texts/SAM_Files.txt
h. http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm 'Tips & Tricks' # 1984

These tools will allow a reset of the admin password
without knowing what the orginal was. you use one of
the suggested options to boot the system and alter
the password. WARNING: use at your own risk.

I have used options a, b, c, d. e. I like ERD Commander
but it is expensive, I would suggest trying ntpasswd

(a) boot cdrom
(b) ntpasswd, it does work and is free. (single disk)
(c) boot cdrom (ISO) version of b.(must create cdrom)
(d/e) another boot disk version of b. (single disk)
(f) commercial software (multiple disks)
(g) manual procedure 

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Stephen Souza
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