[lug] Win NT password

[Nate Duehr]

There's a linux bootdisk that will boot linux from floppy and replace
the Administrator hash in the SAM database with whatever you want it to
be... 

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

This place also supposedly has a boot disk that doesn't use Linux that
does similar things... but I've never tried it...

http://www.nttoolbox.com/

And here's the commercial solution I saw with a Google search...

http://www.lostpassword.com/kit.htm

Lots of warnings all over these sites, especially if you've enabled
SysKey -- read read read before trying, YMMV.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:13:33PM +0000, Greg Horne wrote:
> Hmmmmmm,
>      So my boss comes to me and askes if there is any way to get into an NT 
> box if you lost the administrator password.  Aparently one of our clients 
> did just so.  I can do it on a Unix box, but NT i'm not so sure about.  Has 
> anybody else had a similar problem and solved it?  Re-installing is not an 
> option btw.
> 
> Greg
> 
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