Re: how to get password on limited account user
From: Debra Earle (theboss@intranet-works.com)
Date: 07/29/02
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:53:56 -0700 From: Debra Earle <theboss@intranet-works.com>
Hi, er ... Josée <wg> ....
If you boot into Safe Mode on XP Home, the Administrator account can be
logged into with the username Administrator and a blank password, unless
you put a password on it specifically at some point. If I read you
correctly, you put a password on *your* account as the "default
administrator" but not really the Administrator login. So logging in as
THE Administrator, he could elevate the status of his own account.
That's why you've heard me say (I'm pretty sure you have!) that in some
situations you log in as THE Administrator.
Hope you are well, but watch those friends!
-- DE
P.S. Pardon me, if you're not the Josée I'm assuming you are at that ISP.
"Josée" wrote:
>
> yes I did have a password on my admin account but he changed it from his!
> that is what puzzles me...
> thanks
> "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net> wrote in message
> news:uk86bnstmra875@corp.supernews.com...
> > Greetings --
> >
> > You cannot recover account passwords, but you can change them using
> > another administrative login.
> >
> > As for how he did it, do you have a password on the default
> > Administrator account? If not, that's how he did it.
> >
> > HTH&GL,
> >
> > Bruce Chambers
> > __
> > The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And
> vice
> > versa. -- RAH
> >
> >
> > "Josée" <isibee@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> > news:#fWP35kNCHA.1576@tkmsftngp09...
> > > How can I get a password of a user (limited). Let me explain...I am the
> > > admin on MY pc with XP and somehow my friend changed his account to
> admin
> > > and put in a password. How can I retreive this password if I can t I
> would
> > > have to delete it and recreate it.
> > > Also how can security be breached like that when he was under a limited
> > > account, which he shouldn t of had permission to change anything.
> > >
> > > Please help
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
-- DE
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