Comments on: Recovering Windows logon passwords with Ophcrack

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:46:20 +0000

@Jim

Well, see post. :) Reseting password works but in my opinion editing SAM is looking for trouble. It’s always better to try safer way first.

By: Jim Sefton

Jim Sefton — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:38:23 +0000

Good review there. That solution is great if you are really trying to “crack” a password, that is to find the password of another user without them knowing. If you just want access and have forgotten your password then I believe there is another linux based live cd that resets the admin password. I used it 2 years ago but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called. It basically reset the password to nothing.

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:20:20 +0000

haha you might have to! ;)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:34:57 +0000

@Ben

Well, I’ll have to do “Windows passwords paranoid way” follow-up post later then. :)

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:34:22 +0000

That linux distribution is really awesome. I had to use it a while ago and it really works like a charm…and it’s a bit worrying ;)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:20:32 +0000

@Lax (right? :) )

Yeah, it’s really good to have this one close. Especially if you have to mess with users a lot.

Good luck with your field-laptop test. :)

By: TechZoomIn

TechZoomIn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:10:38 +0000

Good one yar..I desperately need this one.

I need to give a try over it on my laptop :)