Re: Re: Security issue??

From: Brad Pears (donotreply_at_notreal.com)
Date: 09/09/05 

Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:27:56 -0400

Never heard of booting with NTpasswd - is that some sort of utility ?? I
know you can boot to the recovery console etc.. but you need admin password
for that...

Please elaborate!

Thanks,

Brad

"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
news:e5kMaS8sFHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Brad Pears wrote:
>
>> Could you give me an actual example of how this could have been done ,
>> using an actual running service?? I'm just not sure how he could have
>> run "command" from within the service in order to run the managment
>> console to give himself admin rights...
>>
>> My guess is he must have hacked the password but you never know...
>
> Why bother to mess around with services or anything that elaborate?
> Simply boot with NTpasswd and change the Administrator password to a
> blank. Then log in and do whatever you want. Takes less than 5 minutes.
>
> Malke
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