Re: lost administrative password

From: Karl Levinson [x y] MVP (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 10/20/02


From: "Karl Levinson [x y] MVP" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:41:17 -0400


"Blade" <blade7171@libero.it> wrote in message
news:62As9.13735$TD1.632518@news2.tin.it...
> Hi all ! I have lost my administrative password in my Win2000 server !!
>
> is there anybody can tell me where password are saved ?? pls help me !!
> and which program I should use to decript ???

FYI it's considered customary to search a newsgroup for the answer to a
question before posting.

>From a post from Stephen Souza 10 days ago:

"Subject: Re: forgot admin password

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.

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

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 "



Relevant Pages

  • Re: HELP
    ... the suggested options to boot the system and alter ... ntpasswd, it does work and is free. ... boot cdrom version of b. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: Administrators Password
    ... the suggested options to boot the system and alter ... ntpasswd, it does work and is free. ... boot cdrom version of b. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: Locked out
    ... the suggested options to boot the system and alter ... ntpasswd, it does work and is free. ... boot cdrom version of b. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: Forgotten administrator password
    ... the suggested options to boot the system and alter ... ntpasswd, it does work and is free. ... boot cdrom version of b. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: locked out
    ... the suggested options to boot the system and alter ... ntpasswd, it does work and is free. ... boot cdrom version of b. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)