Re: Password question

Thanks, John. I had found the link you referred to, but had no luck. I'm
going to try one more time...I coulda done something wrong. After that, I'll
probably go with a commercial solution. The user that is no longer with us
was the IT Manager. I'll check the office group as you suggested...

"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eoOnVxXAGHA.3804@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The only way he could have deleted the Admin account would have been to
> be logged on as an Administrator. In other words there is still an
> administrator account on the machine. Try this:
>
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
>
> As for the Word docs try asking in the Office group or search the net
> for password crackers for Word docs. These ones might be hard to crack.
> You can also slave the drive in another machine if you just want to
> retrieve files then wipe the drive and reinstall the operating system.
>
> Now, I don't want to lecture you, and I know that the user might have
> had a valid reason to be an Administrator or that he could have used a
> password utility to gain access to the Administrator account. But if
> none of these apply you will have to review the security measures in
> your organization. NO users should have Administrator privileges unless
> absolutely necessary!
>
> John
>
> Chris Hall wrote:
>
> > We have an employee that is no longer with the company. He deleted the
local
> > administrator account and his pc is not joined to the domain. He also
has
> > two Word docs that are password protected. I need to be able to access
his
> > computer and these documents. Any suggestions? Tools/utilities?
> >
> >
>


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