Re: How to Bypass Windows 2000 password
From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k@excite.com)
Date: 11/25/02
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From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@excite.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:48:43 -0500
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
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> "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote in message
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> > "DT" <AnEagle2B@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > > Help!
> > > I set up a new user name and password, and now the system
> > > won't let me logon.
> > > What do I do?
> > > How do I fix or bypass the user name screen?
> >
> > To reset the local administrator password, there is a long list of
pretty
> > much identical options at:
> >
> > http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password
>
> They're not identical.
>
> Many of them are boot floppy based, but some of them use Linux OS tools,
> others require a full set of NT boot floppies, etc. Some of them don't
reset
> it, but actually download the encrypted password onto a floppy for
cracking
> elsewhere while at least one of them does a network attack against the
> machine and can usually break in if it's alive. (There are strong reasons
> that most Windows password security is considered a pretty poor joke: the
> hashing functions involved in its use are pitiful.)
Not exactly. Just about all of the tools listed on the FAQ site [except
maybe one] do the same thing: reset the password for the Administrator
account by modifying the SAM file.
Windows password hashing method doesn't matter. If you have physical access
to the computer, it doesn't matter if it's running Linux, BSD or Windows...
your computer is still compromised with pretty much the same amount of
effort, whether or not you can decrypt the hash. If you haven't secured the
default installation, your computer is going to be hacked remotely about as
easily, no matter what OS is on the computer.
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