http://support.microsoft.com/kb/143475/EN-US/ See the REPAIR ISSUES
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-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com]
On Behalf Of Rocky
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:48 PM
To: Jacob.Marullo@ganuch.com
Cc: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: 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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