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document updated 15 years ago, on May 31, 2009

Apparently I'm not the only one who, when starting a network admin job, find that the hardest problem is just figuring out what the passwords are.

MS Windows

bypass password
- kon-boot
reveal (crack) password
- pwdump1/pwdump2/.../pwdump6/pwdump7 will dump the password hashes
- ophcrack
- more
- more
reset password
- chntpw (writeup)

Linux

bypass password
- kon-boot
reset password
- boot using any live-CD, and hand-edit the /etc/shadow file

BIOS

reset password
- cmospwd
- cmospwc
- killCMOS
- mbockelkamp's 'BIOS' (currently v1.35.1)