Adminisrtator Problems

[cid]

Ok I am an administrator at my school. I help manage around 1200+ computers in the entire district. Well one day I was running sysprep on some new machines so they will be reconized on my DNS server; long story short I put the bad password on about 4 machines. OK moderators before you delete my post please PM me and I will give you the phone number to the school and they will vouch for me.

Now I need a way to reset the administrator password in windows xp. I dont feel like using lopht crack and I dont want to brute force(takes too long). I just want a quick fix. I tried GetAdmin but it failed. I just need an app that resets the password to -Blank-. So if anyone knows of a nifty little program that will suite my needs PM me so the moderators dont close the post.

I REPEAT DO NOT SHARE THE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROGRAM ON THE FORUM(IN PUBLIC) I KNOW FOR SURE THAT THE MODERATORS WILL DELETE MY POST IF EVERYONE POST THEIR FAVORITE HACKING PROG!!!!

[Kasracer]

You can crack a Windows password and you can get around a Windows password to view files. I have yet to see anything that can reset a Windows password, so you may be out of luck.

Doing a recovery install from the CD would clear the pass. You also may want to search through the Microsoft knowledge base for some sort of solution.

[plenderj]

Just re-image the machine?

Or, create a user account on the domain that is a member of the Administrator's group. Login to the machine as that user, and use the User Accounts applet in control panel. I think you should have the rights to reset the password.

[Ideas Man]

If it's a member of a Windows Domain, login as an administrator of the domain and reset it that way, simple.

[cid]

True....I feel like a freaking idiot. I just kept thinking at a local level and never thought to login as Domain admin. Thanks guys and if I find the password reset I will let you know.

[nkad]

Uh..... did you forget that you can reset the administrator password with the Recovery console?

[cid]

I wasnt thinking about it. The freaking guy behind me watching kept asking dumb questions about his sound blasater. So I was just ignoring him and not paying attention to what I was doing. I hate dumb retorical questions.

[Ideas Man]

Originally posted by nkad
Uh..... did you forget that you can reset the administrator password with the Recovery console?

That only works if you know the local administrator password, it asks you for it which he doesn't know.

[parksie]

There's a Linux-based recovery CD image somewhere...

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

Write the CD image to a CD, then boot from it onto the system. Don't try resetting it to a value, you need to totally blank it.

[<ABX]

Originally posted by Ideas Man
That only works if you know the local administrator password, it asks you for it which he doesn't know.

Actually, if you use a win2k disk and use recovery console it wont ask for a password.

[Ideas Man]

mm, yes i know that but i don't exactly like discussing it in public, gives bad people bad ideas...