Admin Account - kids changing

[Powerchordpunk]

To get by system admin passwords, I would attempt using L0phtCrack 4. (@stake software)

 

[Sir_Tony]

Latest:
They use F8 to logon SAFEMODE then copy another account with admin rights from another XP PC into C:\Document & Settings and then they can relog off - logon using new account that has Admin rights.
They normally delete this account before I get home so I could not see how they were doing it, but last night they forgot..
I still don't understand how they activate it as copy alone does not do it.

 

[redhook]

Kw4ntuM: There are two things wrong with your post. 1. The passwords in XP (Pro atleast) are stored in the registry using one way encryption by default. This means that you would have to use the exact same encryption and a dictionary to find the password (unless it's a strong password and then you would have to brute force it). 2. You dont type in english which makes you quite unbelievable... not to mention that you're post has nothing relevant to securing a system.

Redhook

 

[mike09]

i was reading this a fews weeks ago and there was a command promt to change a pass. what was it i think it was deleted.

 

[chooch]

net user is the command prompt util you wouls use to change passwords and delte accounts.

 

[mike09]

oo ok thanks. for deleting accounts i would just put like "net user delete Mike" (without quotes)