[Gllug] Windows XP 64 bit password reset from Ubuntu - where is the equivalent of SAM?

[M.Blackmore]

Got there in the end surprisingly quickly with a bit of social
engineering - actually it was quite frightening how quickly the right
password was found with a series of questions of what was remembered,
wouldn't have taken that much more for someone fishing for clues to
guess this one! A sobering lesson!

Malcolm

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 23:30 +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 23:12 +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> > recover XP passwords is "ophcrack".
> 
> I've just downloaded and burned that and it failed to boot, so better
> try again (yeah one more beermat). However, as it talks about "SAM"
> files I suspect that it only works with 32 bit not x64 - did the
> computers you recovered have x64 on them?
> 
> It will take about an hour to download so I will leave it until tomorrow
> seeing what the hour now is, but if you see this message before I burn a
> new disk and hope for better luck without error on booting it...
> 
> -- 
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> "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite
> world is either a madman or an economist."
> Kenneth Boulding, Economist.
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