Apparently I'm not the only one who, when starting a network admin job, find that the hardest problem is <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/25/2154237">just figuring out what the passwords are</a>.


<h3>MS Windows</h3>

<ul>
<li>bypass password
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/">kon-boot</a>
    </ul>
<li>reveal (crack) password
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.openwall.com/passwords/microsoft-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003-vista">pwdump1/pwdump2/.../pwdump6/pwdump7</a> will dump the password hashes
    <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophcrack">ophcrack</a>
    <li><i><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1250859&cid=28150767">more</a></i>
    <li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Password_Cracking_Software">more</a></i>
    </ul>
<li>reset password
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/">chntpw</a> (<a href="http://rhadimas.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/reset-windows-password-w-knoppix/">writeup</a>)
    </ul>
</ul>


<h3>Linux</h3>

<ul>
<li>bypass password
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/">kon-boot</a>
    </ul>
<li>reset password
    <ul>
    <li>boot using any live-CD, and <a href="http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html">hand-edit the /etc/shadow file</a>
    </ul>
</ul>


<h3>BIOS</h3>
<ul>
<li>reset password
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd">cmospwd</a>
    <li><a href="http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd">cmospwc</a>
    <li><a href="http://majorgeeks.com/download2969.html">killCMOS</a>
    <li>mbockelkamp's <a href="http://mbockelkamp.dyndns.org/mbockelkamp/mysoft_d.htm">'BIOS'</a> (currently v1.35.1)
    </ul>
</ul>