Re: Administrator Password

From: herbcne (herbcne@bellsouth.net)
Date: 10/06/02 

From: "herbcne" <herbcne@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:41:24 -0400

You can use Winternals ERD Commander for WinNT 4 to do one of two things.
Mount the sys vol and cd to c:\winnt\system32\config and delete the sam
file. This will cause the server to default to no password for the
administrator account.
Second, you can copy the sam out and run Loft against it to see if you can
filter the administrator password. Either way, you can accomplish what you
need, that is: get back into the machine....
Herb
"Bill" <bkempe@trappfamily.com> wrote in message
news:41b101c26af7$a38935e0$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl...
> The administrator password on a windows 2000 server was
> changed and now we can not log on using the administrator
> account. Any one know how to get around this?

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