My administrator for my work laptop is gone for a few days, I am out in the field and I need to install some software but can't because I am a poweruser.

I have all kinds of Linux LiveCDs, but I don't know if R.I.P., ultimate boot CD, Trinity Rescue or any of those can help me with this...

Can you help? suggest a CD or otherwise get me into this laptop so that I can install the apps that I need?

Thanks

He may be a domain Administrator. Try booting in the rescue mode and log in as "Administrator". This is your local machine Administrator account. It may have a null password.

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# Posts containing information about cracking, piracy, warez, fraud or any topic that could be damaging to either LinuxQuestions.org or any third party will be immediately removed.

While what you're asking may be perfectly innocent, we don't know that. Furthermore, your system Admin may not like you circumventing his/her Admin rights. So, sorry. You'll just have to wait till your Admin returns.

Luck!

If you are not an authorized administrator of the system, then you should really get permission before circumventing authentication otherwise you may be putting yourself at risk. In fact you should really make it a point when you get back to have some kind of alternate means of installing software if you are off-site or he/she is away for whatever reason in the future. That being said, I'm closing this thread as it's basically asking to provide a howto on cracking windows authentication. There are plenty of places on the net to find that information though.

/Closing thread