Re: Disabling syskey on XP pro

hi list, i tried this ntpasswd but it doesn't work,the syskey
startup kept poping up.thank you anyway.




On 9/6/06, Jacob L. Marullo <Jacob.Marullo@ganuch.com> wrote:
> If you are not using file encryption and need to reset passwords, try using
> http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It is a free offline password reset
> utility.  It actually boots into linux to do this.
>
>
>
> Jake
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Jedig [mailto:seclists@syneticon.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:58 PM
> To: Rocky
> Cc: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Disabling syskey on XP pro
>
> Rocky wrote:
>
> > Hi List, one of my client forgot his syskey password, i tried
> > booting up on erd 2005 and run/update syskey.exe but it
> > did not help. Is there anyway to disable syskey from running
> > on startup or updating the syskey password?
>
> Since syskey is there to protect the user databases (SAM) by means of
> strong encryption (and the password is protecting the en-/decryption key
> BTW), your only way around this would be to try to bruteforce the
> password. You always could reset the SAM of course, but would loose any
> local accounts, groups and trusts.
> The ERD will only contain encrypted versions of your SAM BTW.
>
> Denis
>
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