Re: SAM file
From: Max (max_sand1_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:14:36 -0000
"Steven L Umbach" <sumbach@nospam-ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> You could try to crack the sam file also using the free program Cain and
> Abel. I have not tried it for an offline sam file but see the link below
for
> details and you could tet it yourself. More than likely the password is
> stored with lm hash which should be pretty easy to do. --- Steve
>
> http://www.oxid.it/cain.html
>
> "Steven L Umbach" <sumbach@nospam-ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> > See the link below for possibilities. The second link is a free
> > administrator password reset program where there is a downloadable ISO
> image
> > that you can burn to make a bootable cdrom password reset disk for the
> built
> > in administrator account. However it is not a boot and finish disk. It
> > requires the user to answer to a number of prompts, most of which
require
> > you to hit enter for the default selection. You may want to try it
> yourself
> > first and document the steps to coach her through the process. ---
Steve
> >
> > http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#password
> > http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
> >
> > "Max" <max_sand1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:7jSWb.4469$vo1.2870@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We have a windows 2000 professional laptop which has a removable cd
and
> > > floppy drive, you can take out the cd drive and put in the floppy
drive
> > and
> > > swap them about.
> > >
> > > The problem is that the pc was setup without setting up the floppy
> drive,
> > > therefore windows thinks it doesn't have one. The pc was then shipped
> off
> > to
> > > a user abroad and now every time she trys to put the floppy drive in
it
> > says
> > > she doesn't have sufficient permissions to install this device.
> > >
> > > OK so you might think just logon as admin and give her permissions or
> > > install the drive - right well the person who built the laptop has
left
> > and
> > > we cannot get the password for the admin account. I can see that the
> user
> > > does have Power user rights which I thought would have been enough to
> > > install this piece of hardware but obviously not.
> > >
> > > So we either need to find some magical workaround to install the
floppy
> > > drive or find the admin password and up her rights to admin so that
she
> > can
> > > install the drive. You have to remember this has to all be done over
the
> > > phone as she is remote, although I do have dial in access to the
laptop
> > > which means I can do limited tasks but the connection is very slow
(less
> > > than 15k) and I would only have the same user rights as the end user.
> > >
> > > One idea we had was to copy the SAM file and then get her to email it
to
> > us
> > > and we could crack it using lophtcrack or something, but everytime she
> > tries
> > > to copy the file it says it is in use as expected - is the SAM file in
> > > c:\winnt\repair the same file copied? Could we use this?
> > >
> > > Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Max
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Cain and Abel looks good, its already cracked 10 of my passowrds including
my msn pasword and others, very impressive. Ill give it a go.
Thanks
Max
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