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Re: [LUG] lost xp password

 

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:55:30PM +0100, james kilty wrote:
> My wife has outwitted herself in trying to keep our daughter out of her
> work computer. She changed the password today, used it once and cannot
> remember it to get it going again tonight. Is there any way to deal with
> this problem? I have Knoppix and other Live CD's if this would help.
> 
> Any chance of getting her to work tomorrow? It is somewhat urgent as you
> might imagine - she is a home worker and needs to start early.
> As a last resort, we can pull out the files she wants using a Live CD
> and putting them on to her laptop, but this is not ideal.

I've used http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ in the past. It's a
bare-minimum GNU/Linux bootdisk containing a program to reset the password.

There is also a chntpw or chntpass or similar packaged for Debian, but I don't
know if it'd be on the livecds. The above may be easier.

Hope that helps.

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