find out the password for the user

[beeleegie]

a user lose his password, and he want to get back his password from me, so where can i get it back his password?

 

[nicolasgreening]

Have you thought of reseting the password ?

 

[koquito]

If you dont know it, the only option you have is resetting it. On his/her account check the box where it says USer must change his password at next logon, or go to the username in AD, and set the new password for him/her. A+, MCP, CCNA
marbinpr@hotmail.com

Keep fighting for your knowledge!

 

[GlenJohnson]

Are you talking about AD or a password on a w2k pro machine? Need a little more info. Thanks. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949); Belgian author

 

[shender944]

If you have a stand alone win 2000 machine then you can just log on as the administrator and under users reset the password. If you have AD then you can reset it from the Domain controler.

 

[beeleegie]

the password i need is AD, not local machine. Only reset option I can choose?

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Resetting the password then forcing the user to change it is the most secure option.

If you think about it from a security point of view, you wouldn't want to be able to find out what a user's password was - or you'd buy something more secure.

HTH CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[GlenJohnson]

Reset it is. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949); Belgian author

 

if you want to reset the administrative password of win 2000 professional;boot machine by bootable floopy then delete the sam file from machine if partition was ntfs ;

 

[Zelandakh]

aha - there is a cheat but I can't recall the name of it.

A piece of software means you can go to the username, grab the asterisks in their password and paste it into this app and it shows the password. Not used it in 2000, but it worked in NT.

Just don't tell the management...

 

[GlenJohnson]

the password i need is AD, not local machine. Only reset option I can choose? What's wrong with this? CitrixEngineer is on the money. Go into AD users and groups, change the password, set it up to make the user change the password at the next login, call the user with the new password and your done. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"Patience is more powerful than force."
Plutarch (46-125 A.D.);

 

[CitrixEngineer]

"aha - there is a cheat but I can't recall the name of it."

L0phtcrack was a "cracking" tool but is now a professional tool - if that's the one you meant. While away a few hours waiting for it to crack the SAM database, if you must. I'd rather spend 5 seconds clicking the "User must change password at next login" box, myself CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[Zelandakh]

the one I've used is for single user, copy the asterisks of the password and drop onto the app.

l0pht is great and should crack most passwords within 5 minutes on a decent machine.

 

[Yardyy]

Zelandakh, if you remember that little app please let us know, i currently use Lophtcrack v3, thats good, but it can take 8 hours on the laptop that i have... so something like that would be good... Regards

Yardyy

 

[Guest_imported]

snadboys relevation might be it...

do a google search

 

[CitrixEngineer]

quote /"l0pht is great and should crack most passwords within 5 minutes on a decent machine." /quote

Depends how big the SAM database is really - if you've got a 10,000 user international domain, with a complex password policy enforced, l0pht can take a while even on a quad proc server with 2Gb RAM... It has its uses CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[Guest_imported]

It was available on a cover disk for PC Review once.

The one I had allow you to open the program, drag the key icon over the stars and it changes it to text. Worked on 98 and 2000.

Will try and find it tonite for you.


Andrew