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Posted by Eric Denekamp on October 4, 2005, 6:10 am
Please log in for more thread options In This case I should try to get hold of a ERD commander CD, a BartPE disk
or something like that. you can get ERD commander from www.wininternals.com.
this is for me the first choice in these situations.
I do not know what the linux Boot floppy does when you enter a blanc password
for the admin.
can you physically logon to the server with another account?
In that case you might want to try the following first:
open a command prompt and type:
at xx:xx /interactive cmd.exe
where xx:xx is the time in two minutes. if it says: added new job.....
you in the clear, because now you just have to wait for the commandbox to
open and do the next thing:
net user <username> /add
net localgroup administrators <username> /add
with this you added a temp user and added this account to the admins group,
you now can logon with this accoutn and reset teh password of the original
admin.
good luck
eric
> Hi Eric,
> I want to clear the password so that make it blank and let me able
> logon
> again without any password.
> thanks
>
>> do you have access to the server? do you want to reset the password
>> to something you know, or do you want to recover the old password,
>> those are two different things.
>>
>> If you have physical access to the box you can reboot it with for
>> instance ERD commander from Wininternals and reset the admi password.
>> (look out, it will corrupt the certificates that are present in the
>> personal store of that admin (including de recovery agent
>> certificate)
>>
>> there are several other tools that claim to do the same thing, but I
>> had bad experiences with for instance te famous linux boot flop that
>> claims to do the job, but it corrupted my registry in a sence that I
>> could not promote my machine anymore to a DC or demote it from DC,
>> and it was consistent in doint so.
>>
>> s first test the tool you are going to use first on a similar test
>> OS.
>>
>> good luck
>> Eric
>>> Hi,
>>> I lost my local administrator password. It is stand alone windows
>>> server
>>> 2003 standard edition with SP1.
>>> "Administrator" is the one and only one userID with admin rights.
>>> Any
>>> way to get back the password without reinstall the OS?
>>> thanks
>>>
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