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Hi all,
I lost my password of an w2k3 server. The local administrator account is disabled and not a member of the administrators group. The administrator account is in the active directory and I can't find the sam file for that, anybody can help me?
thx in advance
Hi,
I don't think that reset the cmos will help. The problem is that I need to reset the administrator account from the active directory. I gave it a try with ERD and bart PE, without success.
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OH my. Don't fool with the cmos!
You need something like john or opcrack or reset it by seeing petri's site or other options.
Also loginrecovery is a great way to get the info.
Playing to the angels
Les Paul (1915-2009)
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Resetting the CMOS has nothing whatsoever to do with authenticating on a server in an AD environment.
Dark, you're probably thinking about either a BIOS password, or a bootup password. The kind where you hit Power, the system begins to boot and do the POST but stops and asks for a password before continuing to POST and then after POST, boot the OS.
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Yes, if you get to the login window you can reset the Windows password from there......but that is not the CMOS.
I'm thinking you don't know what the CMOS is. Why don't you google it and BIOS and see what they are and then you'll understand.
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CMOS BATTERY...RESETED...THE PASSWORD WAS GONE...
This confirms my suspicions. You were talking about at bootup password contained in the BIOS which prevents the system from booting until the correct password is entered.
You can get rid of the bootup password by removing your CMOS battery which resets the BIOS to factory defaults.
As I've said already, this is NOT the same thing as the password used to login to the windows operating system.
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you don`t get me again
I REMOVED XP PASSWindows XP user
i would appreciate if everybody that has received help from me to say if my suggestions works
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Sorry Darko but you really don't understand this stuff.
Bios/cmos password is for hardware access.
Bios/cmos has nothing to do with software/OS access.
XP user account is not the same thing as an Active Directory user account.You can not apply workstation solutions to servers or Active Directory.
xt0f
Are you telling us there are NO OTHER admin accounts in Active Directory?
Guess you understand the importance of making multiple admin accounts now.Perhaps this can help
http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain...
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Hi Wanderer,
I have disabled the standard administrator and created an other user with administrator rights. If I try to change the password with ERD commander or an other tool I only see guest and administrator, but both are disabled :s. The problem is that I don't now how to access the AD database. I can access the DC in safe mode.
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look...
i have not much experience in win 2003, but try this...restart the PC...
press F8 for a couple of times...
select the safe mode option...
when the system loads, select "administrator account"...
go to control panel >> user accounts...
click on your account...
select "remove password"
if any confirmation requested, click "remove password" (something like that)NOTE: 100% works on XP, but try it on win 2003
might work...
Windows XP user
i would appreciate if everybody that has received help from me to say if my suggestions works
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xt0f
"I have disabled the standard administrator and created an other user with administrator rights"
OK. So its this 'other' admin account you have forgotten the password to?
ERD only works with workstation local accounts which is why I pointed you to the link I did.
darko
"when the system loads, select "administrator account"..."
He may be able to select the account but without the password you can't logon either in XP or 2003. So your proposed solution doesn't work in either without the password.
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hold on...
is the default administrator account with password ???...Windows XP user
i would appreciate if everybody that has received help from me to say if my suggestions works
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Darko you are asked to give it one during install aren't you? If you choose not to give it one that is your choice though not MS recommended and not standard.
Security protocol recommends you don't disable the admin account but remove it from the admin group after you have made a couple of other admin accounts. Note the 's' in accounts. You always want a back door into the system if the primary admin account is corrupted. This leaves the admin account as bait, with little to no rights, for a hacker/rouge software since it is the first primary target.
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I tried the link and installed that what wanderer gave me, but no luck for me.I'm a doing something wrong or does that only work for the user administrator?
This is the situation:
administrator account: not a member of administrators and disabled.
otheruser is member from the group administrators
thx in advance
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instead of administrator did you try inputting the admin account you made?
I thought the point here was to gain access to the system via the admin account you created before you disabled the administrator account.
You disabled the administrator account so that door is closed to us.
What was the account name you made???
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the account that I made was kamiel, and I replaced administrator by kamiel and also used a strong password p@ssw0rd12
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glad you fixed it...
Windows XP user
i would appreciate if everybody that has received help from me to say if my suggestions works
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You consider that a strong password? I consider that generic...
A brute force can crack that in probably 24 hrs.
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Hi Willmcc,
that's the password I used for the tool for resetting the password, else it wouldn't work due the password policy.
thx for the info anyway
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