Showing posts with label Recover password. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recover password. Show all posts
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Friday, December 17, 2010
How to recover/HACK Windows Password from Linux?
Check out this method for retrievingforgotten Windows passwords via Linux.
I works on Windows XP and Vista (not yettested on Windows 7).
Ingredients: one Linux live CD (that auto mounts Windows partitions – e.g. Ubuntu, Backtrack, Fedora, openSUSE).
Save the .iso and burn it to a disc.
Boot from the CD and follow these instructions (assuming your areusing backtrack, but should be similar for other Linux distributions):
I works on Windows XP and Vista (not yettested on Windows 7).
Ingredients: one Linux live CD (that auto mounts Windows partitions – e.g. Ubuntu, Backtrack, Fedora, openSUSE).
Save the .iso and burn it to a disc.
Boot from the CD and follow these instructions (assuming your areusing backtrack, but should be similar for other Linux distributions):
- Open a Linux terminal and enter the following commands:
- cd /mnt
- ls (make a note of the folders listed here. You might need them in the next step.)
- cd sda1/Windows/System32/ (If this doesn’t work you might have thewrong hard drive: try replacing ’sda1? with sda2, hda1, or hda2)
- mv utilman.exe utilman.old && cp cmd.exe utilman.exe
- reboot (and remove the CD)
- Once rebooted, at Vista or XP log in screen, press the Windows key+ U to run CMD with system privileges. Replace the username below withone of your choice – it must not already exist!
- c:\ net user username mypassword /add
- c:\ net localgroup administrators username /add
- Log in with the new admin account!
Thanks..
How to recover Linux root password?
Hi friends, here is a way to recover your Linux (all distributions) password when you accediently forget it...
To get around a lost Linux root password:
You must have access to the console for this to work. Follow these steps:
- Power off the system
- Power on the system, wait for the LILO/SILO/MILO prompt (platform dependent)
First :1: Second :2:)
Depending on how lucky you are, or rather how ancient your linuxdistribution is, you might be able to get away with the following:
- At the prompt, type <kernel> 1 (where <kernel> is the label you use to boot linux normally) and thus boot to single user mode.
- In single user mode, linux never used to prompt for the superuser password. If this is the case with your system, simply use mount -o remount -n / and then use the passwd command to change the superuser password.
- At the prompt, type in <kernel> init=/bin/sh (where <kernel> is thelabel you use to boot linux normally).
- Once the system dumps you at a "# " prompt, type: mount -o remount -n /
- echo root2:x:0:0:::: >> /etc/passwd
- echo root2:::::::: >> /etc/shadow
- sync
- Power cycle the system.
- Once the system has booted, log in as root2 (you shouldn't be prompted for a password) and use the command passwd root to change the root pasword,then userdel to remove the root2 user.
- Problem solved.
Thanks....
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Thursday, July 07, 2011
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