The Offline NT Password Editor

(c) 1997-2004 Petter Nordahl-Hagen

-(c) 1997-2004 Petter Nordahl-Hagen



See COPYING for copyright & credits.

See INSTALL for compile/installation instructions.



Where to get more info:

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http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/



At that site there s a floppy and a bootable CD that use chntpw to

access the NT/2k/XP-system it is booted on to edit password etc.

The instructions below are for the standalone program itself, not the floppy.



What does it do?

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This little program will enable you to view some information and

change user passwords in a Windows NT SAM userdatabase file.

You do not need to know the old passwords.

However, you need to get at the file some way or another yourself.

In addition it contains a simple registry editor with full write support,

and hex-editor which enables you to

fiddle around with bits&bytes in the file as you wish yourself.



Why?

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I often forget passwords. Especially on test installations (that

I just _must_ have som