Sometimes people have a need to know because it's hardcoded in programs, services run with it across platforms etc. Terrible practice but I have seen lots of cases over the years where folks wanted to crack vs reset for that reason. Also comes up in the case of disgruntled sysadmins, M&A activity etc. Back in the day it was lophtcrack to the rescue, now there are many alternatives as you have seen this morning.
-----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password Access Windows 2003 and Above Servers No prob. I, personally, am not aware of anything that can *crack* a password. Apparently there are some tools to do that, but why bother when you can just *reset* the password? :-) -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password Access Windows 2003 and Above Servers No doubt it works. I first used it years ago on NT when it was really the only game in town, I wasn't refuting the veracity of the tool, just the applicability WRT OP's query :-] -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password Access Windows 2003 and Above Servers Nope. You're correct. It's not the same. However, Pete Nordahl's disk really *does* reset the password. It will NOT let you crack the password. I don't know of anything that'll let you "crack" the password. -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password Access Windows 2003 and Above Servers Crack !=reset -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password Access Windows 2003 and Above Servers Well, you could try Pete Nordahl's NT Password Reset Disk. That can be found here: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ -----Original Message----- From: David Elebute [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Password Access Windows 2003 and Above Servers I know this is an old topic, so i apologize for being redundant. But we just got asked to crack the administrator password of a network or three servers that the old IT company is refusing to give access to due to a dispute between outgoing and incoming ownership teams. Any tools (hopefully free) that can do this for us? i remember using a PX something program a while back, but canoot find the procedure for running it. Please any and all help is greatly appreciated. D.Elebute ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
