[lug] weird question...

[Bruce Yelen]

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
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