IT WILL BE HARD TO FIND THE THE PASSWORD HASHES, SO GO FOR THE USER-NAMES WHICH ARE NOT ENCRYPTED, JUST AFTER THE USER-NAMES PASSWORDS’ HASHES CAN BE FOUND OUT, COPY THE CODE BETWEEN “%” SIGN AND ON THE THE GOOGLE SEARCH FOR THE RAINBOW TABLES, THEY WILL PROVIDE THE DECRYPTED VALUE WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN BRUTE-FORCED EARLIER. OPEN THE FILE USING EMACS EDITOR (AVAILABLE IN NEARLY ALL THE DISTRIBUTIONS OF LIVE LINUX). GNOME, KDE OR VIM TEXT EDITORS WON’T DISPLAY THE CONTENT OF THIS FILE IT IS A COMMON MISCONCEPTION THAT SAM FILE CAN BE VIEWED THROUGH NORMAL TEXT EDITOR, SAM FILE ISNT A NORMAL TEXT FILE. WHICH WILL BE MENTIONED AS /MEDIA/DISK-1/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SAM THEN MOUNT THE DRIVE WHICH HAS WINDOWS COPY INSTALLED ON IT. THUS THE USERS’ PASSWORD IS RESET TO NULL VALUE.īOOT YOUR COMPUTER FROM A LIVE LINUX CD OR DVD WHICH HAS AN NTFS/HPFS FILE-SYSTEM SUPPORT. WHEREAS THE USERS’ SETTING REMAIN UNTOUCHED. THE REPAIR OPTION WILL TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS THE INSTALLATION WOULD HAVE TAKEN BECAUSE THE WINDOWS FILE-SYSTEM IS REPLACED INCLUDING THE SAM FILE WHERE THE PASSWORD IS STORED. THIS METHOD IS ALSO KNOWN AS WINDOWS RECOVERY METHOD, LIMITATIONS: THE ABOVE METHOD WILL ONLY WORK IF YOU ARE LOGGED IN AS THE ADMINISTRATOR USER.īOOT FROM THE WINDOWS XP CD AND PRESS ENTER WHEN YOU ARE PROMPTED TO INSTALL WINDOWS COPY, ON THE NEXT SCREEN THERE IS A REPAIR EXISTING WINDOWS VERSION. THE GENERAL SYNTAX IS FOR CHANGING PASSWORD IS THEN WE CAN CHANGE IT FROM THE FOLLOWING COMMAND THEN THE PASSWORD OF ANY USER CAN BE CHANGED BY LOGGING INTO THE ACCOUNT OF ANY ONE ADMINISTRATORįOR EXAMPLE IF WE WANT TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD OF ADMIN1 SUPPOSE THERE ARE THREE ADMINISTRATOR USERS WITH THE NAME OF ADMIN1, ADMIN2 AND ADMIN3 THE SCREEN WILL DISPLAY THE LIST OF USERS AVAILABLE ON MACHINE NOW IN THE COMMAND PROMPT TYPE “NET USER” GO TO THE TASK-BAR AND CLICK ON THE START BUTTON, THEN CLICK ON RUN AND IN THE PLACE GIVEN ON DIALOG BOX TYPE “COMMAND”, PRESS ENTER. THEN THE XP USERS’ PASSWORDS CAN BE RESET USING COMMAND PROMPT. IF YOU HAVE AN ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT (NOT GUEST) OR EVEN YOU CAN REMOVE PASSWORD BY CLICKING ON REMOVE “PASSWORD OPTION” OPEN RUN-TYPE EXACTLY “CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2” WITHOUT BRACKETSĪND THEN CLICK ON ADMINISTRATOR AND CHANGE PASSWORD. OPEN WINDOWS IN SAFE MODE.(ADMINISTRATOR ACC.)
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