Re: forgotten admin password

From: Francois Yang (francois.y@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2007 - 10:36:00 EDT


depending on how long the password is you might be able to grab the
hash and crack the password through one of those sites that does
rainbow table cracks.
Or you can use a tool like ntpasswd to reset it. I haven't tried on a
win2k3 server but it may work.

On 4/19/07, cesar montano <reps20@yahoo.com> wrote:
> mates,
> need your inputs badly. we have w2k3 server with
> a newly installed application ... unfortunately, the
> system staff who's in-charge for that server has
> forgotten the admin password he inputted in the last
> few weeks. any idea on how to recover it or other
> way to login on that server?
>
>
> advance thanks to everyone.
>
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