Re: Windows 2000 Administrator lockout

[Alexandre Verriere <maxwell () nskb net>]

Hi all,

To recover the adminstrator password simply make a backup of 
winlogon.scr and replace it with a copy of  cmd.exe (renammed to 
winlogon.scr)
Boot the machine and wait for a shell instead of the winlogon 
screensaver and then use the 'net' command to set the password for the 
desired account for exemple : /net user administrator new_password/  
will update the local administrator password to what you
want. Now restart the box ... :-)


Maxwell (http://www.nskb.net)




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