[lug] weird question...

[Stephen G. Smith]

I have a boot disk with a small linux distro that through various scripts,
 will allow you to mount NTFS
 volumes and then access the SAM and repassword any user account inc. the
 administrator account...it lists all accounts on the machine and allows you
 to choose.

 I will send if you like...needs rawrite2.exe to create the image.. I may
 still have that aswell.

 I had a couple of clients that locked them selves out and it worked like a
 dream and it is FREE...

 Cheers,

 Stephen G.


----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Yelen <byelen at atlas.csd.net>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [lug] weird question...


> Sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com) has a utility that is supposed to be
> able to recover the administrative password on any WinNT machine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, John Edwards wrote:
>
> > At 08:41 PM 12/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > >This may sound weird to some of you, but I'll risk the criticism:  I
> > >heard some time ago that you can break into an NT box using a linux
> > >boot disk.  My question is two-fold: is this true? and how is it done?
> > >
> > >So you don't think I'm totally crazy, I'll give you the background.  A
> > >friend of mine installed Windows 2000 on his computer and was fooling
> > >around with the network settings.  Somehow, he managed to lock himself
> > >out (i.e. he can't get past the log in screen, I think it's because he
> > >doesn't know the his password).  Other than re-formatting the drive,
> > >is there a good way to get past this so he can change the information
> > >so that he can "properly" get past the log in screen?
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> >
> > Besides Linux, there is an NTFS driver for DOS that will allow you to
read
> > an NTFS formatted drive.
> > Supposedly, you are limited to read only, but I've used it in
conjunction
> > with Partition Magic, to re partition the drive, without any problems.
> > It's NTFSDOS or something similar.  I haven't had a copy for some time
> > now, since I don't use NTFS here at home (I keep my NT boot as FAT so I
can
> > read it from other OS's.
> >
> >
> >
> > John
> > If Life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car
> > and objects in the rear-view window may appear closer
> > han they are.                                  Meatloaf
> >
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