Lost administrator password

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Edward van der Maas

Ok, I can see most of your faces now. Not again....
Yes....

One of our customers has managed to install a Active Directory system and
has lost their administrator password. All we have is user level access.
I've tried hacking my way into the system but nothing seems to work. Their
is no IIS installed but the blaster patches are not installed so I've
managed to gain system level access by a remote cmd.exe. The only problem is
that we wanna reset the administrator password on this machine. It is their
only server and reinstalling is not much of an option since there is a lot
of data on it and we can't do anything with a backup since that is password
protected with...indeed the administrator password.

I've tried using Locksmith but for some reason that application says "Unable
to load registry information"

Does anyone has any clue what to do ?

Many thanks,
Edward
 
Ok, I can see most of your faces now. Not again....
Yes....

One of our customers has managed to install a Active Directory system and
has lost their administrator password. All we have is user level access.
I've tried hacking my way into the system but nothing seems to work. Their
is no IIS installed but the blaster patches are not installed so I've
managed to gain system level access by a remote cmd.exe. The only problem is
that we wanna reset the administrator password on this machine. It is their
only server and reinstalling is not much of an option since there is a lot
of data on it and we can't do anything with a backup since that is password
protected with...indeed the administrator password.

I've tried using Locksmith but for some reason that application says "Unable
to load registry information"

Does anyone has any clue what to do ?

Many thanks,
Edward
Click to expand...
From the CMD prompt:

net user Administrtator Newpassword /domain

To reset the Active Directory Restore Mode password, use tip 1984 in the 'Tips &
Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Jerold,

net user Administrtator Newpassword /domain did the trick. Too easy.

Many thanks,
Edward
 
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