LXer: Hack Windows passwords using the Linux application chntpw

LXer · 08-09-2011, 10:40 PM

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A friend of mine dared me to hack his Administrator account, so I did, in 30 seconds, and this is how I did it:You need a Live Linux (CD, DVD, USB, Diskette, who cares) and the application chntpwA bit of theory: Windows stores its local user accounts in the C:windowssystem32configSAM file. If you want to change ANYTHING that is related to the user accounts you do it from this file, but it is of course encrypted. Not a problem! While we can’t read the file and see what password is already assigned to a user, we can sure as hell overwrite it.

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H_TeXMeX_H · 08-10-2011, 07:52 AM

I thought hacking wasn't allowed here. It's not really hacking tho, it's more like resetting the password. Either way if the disk is not encrypted you have local access to all of it anyway.