[NMLUG] Linux to the rescue -- or not?

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

I'm not sure if BartPE can manipulate the registry but it might be worth
looking into.  BartPE is a WinXP LiveCD (of sorts) that I mostly use to
read/write to the NTFS partition on hosed XP machines.  You might be able to
access the registry if you know what to add to get the user added to the
local administrator group.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Tim

--- Mike Kruchoski <mikek@mrcabq.com> wrote:
> I'm faced with a dilemma that can be easily solved (I think) by using a 
> bootable Linux CD: gaining access to a Win2K machine as the local machine 
> administrator.  Quote:
> 
> "There are Linux boot disks that have DOS and NTFS filesystem drivers and 
> software that will read the registry and rewrite the password hashes for 
> any account including the Administrators. It is as simply as:
>     * shutdown or turnoff the PC
>     * put the book disk in the PC and reboot
>     * respond to the Linux prompts
>     * the highest barrier is understanding unix media descriptors
>     * select the account whose password hash needs to be rewritten & enter 
> a new password
>     * reboot & access using the new 
> password"                                         (End Quote)
> Does anyone know whether a similar approach will allow one to change a 
> user's PRIVILEGES (on the local machine), that is, to ADD a user to a group
> 
> like the "administrators", rather than to change the administrator's
> password?
> 
> No doubt there are third-party proprietary solutions that can do this in 
> the Windows environment.  The challenge is to be able to do it via Linux / 
> open-source solutions.
> 
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