On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:26, Mansur, Warren wrote: > > Actually the utility I'm familiar with works just fine with NTFS. > > Basically, Linux has no problem _changing_ data on NTFS. It's adding > or > > removing data that gets messy. > > For those that have never seen it, you can download the disk image > at: > > http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ > > Just on FYI. I downloaded the image, copied it to a floppy, booted my > Win2k system with it, and changed one of my local user's passwords, all > within 5 minutes. This definitely works! I do have my partition as > FAT32 instead of NTFS.
During Cisco acquisitions, this software was required: all too often, people either had forgotten their admin password, or the person who knew them wasn't 'round. As a sidenote, I can't really blame MS in any way -- one thing that's _always_ been true, regardless of OS: if you don't have physical security, you don't really have any security. -Ken ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
