Best way of getting an xp admin password using linux?

[sargey]

What's the best boot disk / program to use?

 

[Lee]

I've used this in the past: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

 

[H182]

^Was just about to post the same. Worked for me.

 

[KDF]

Ye NTPASSWD is what I use although I found it is only good for clearing/reseting an account.

 

[Rasclart]

ERD Commander has all sorts of tools including password reset. Bootable CD

 

[sargey]

Where do I get ERD Commander from?

 

[Rasclart]

Winternals ERD Commander

We bought ours AGES ago, however you can get several versions on Newsgroups. Only a 60-90MB download

 

[sargey]

I've used this in the past: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

I'm trying to use the recovery console on an xp installation.

Used the above to blank both the Administrator account and the other admin user's passwords, but the recovery console is still asking for the admin password and hitting enter ain't working.

Any more ideas?

 

[sargey]

Tis ok. I just logged onto the other partition and I'm still able to play with the c drive.

 

[Mells]

Is buteforce still about? if you can get the .pwd list file. I remember back in the day this is how we got our colleges entire password list. That was running windows 98 though..

 

[rctempire]

ntpass works great.
Boot from cd, type in ntpass press enter.
Let cd boot up, asks you for drive you wish, enter number of drive.
Select password change.
Select Administrator, type * (blanks password and removes it)
Select user account type *

type exit.

Job done.

 

[KDF]

Is buteforce still about? if you can get the .pwd list file. I remember back in the day this is how we got our colleges entire password list. That was running windows 98 though..

Pretty sure the account info is all salt'd now.. certaintly thats the case for cached domain login accounts.

 

[rctempire]

PWD file doesnt exist on domains. Its all held in Active Directory and i dont think they are recoverable, just reset will change them.