Need hacking help (for legit purposes).

[Stark]

One of the administrators here at work forgot the Administrator passwords for a Windows 2000 web-server he just setup. He doesn't want to reformat. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[MysticLlama]

Well, if there is another account on there with Admin rights he can always just login as the other user (himself for instance) and change the password. But I have a feeling he's thought of that and that's not the case.

I do have something around here somewhere that will do it, let me see if I can dig it up. It's just a Linux boot disk that allows you to write to the registry to reset the admin password.

 

[Stark]

Yep, the only account on the machine is the administrator. He's basically locked out.

 

[cableguy]

Linux bootdisk to edit Nt password here.

 

[tasslex]

2 things you can do - get Locksmith from Winternals and change/get the password, or boot to a floppy with NTFSDOS and pull the SAM Database and Crack it with l0pht Crack.

I have used the Pull the SAM and crack it method a few times, and it works really well, but you need a machine with a fast CPU to crack through the SAM.

 

[MichaelD]

Translation: My roommate went home for summer vacation and left his PC here. He's got it locked up tighter than a drum and I want to look at his porno...I mean surf...I mean......

JK...couldn't resist. Seriously, I hope it all works out for you. That's why I have admin rights for all the NT boxes in my office...sometimes the little post-it note that these folks write their passwords on gets lost or gets thrown away (think about that for a sec....so much for network security, huh?) Good luck.