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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. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0
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