I have used it and was pretty happy with it. It just basically gets the hash
that the passwords are stored in and replaces the password entry with one of
your choice, there's no cracking or brute forcing. I had a machine I
absolutely had to get in to (a domain controller at a remote office of a
company I was new at) and no one could remember the admin password. The
admin on site was the office manager and didn't really use the DC that much,
so he never logged in as admin and he himself wasn't even an admin (don't
ask). So we replaced the admin password with one of our own. We had no
problems.

-cs

-----Original Message-----
From: Jair Pedro [mailto:jairagendasaude.com.br]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:54 PM
To: FOCUS-MSsecurityfocus.com
Subject: Re: lost NT password

> www.passwordrecovery.com has a really cool tool. It is a bit pricey, but
> fast and effective.
> http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-2000-nt.htm

Have actually used this tool?
It sounds a bit dangerous using it on a production machine...

If somebody has a feedback about it, pls advise, until then I will not put
it on my bookmarks :)

Jair

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