When I set up our NT network I created an anonymous user account for web browsing. Now I want to add some additional machines and give them the same permissions but I can't remember the original password. Of course it only shows as **** in User Manager. How can I access this password. I have full admin permissions.
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Finding an existing user password
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From within Microsofts solution you can't, thats the whole point of the security system.
However if you search the web there are tools out there that can reportedly reverse passwords.
Also it may be that the password is stored in the registry of the machines that are logging on, this is most likely if you have used something like tweekgui to set up an auto login on a win95/98 machine
However if you search the web there are tools out there that can reportedly reverse passwords.
Also it may be that the password is stored in the registry of the machines that are logging on, this is most likely if you have used something like tweekgui to set up an auto login on a win95/98 machine
There are tools that can hack admin passwords and I have used one in particular for regaining local admin passwords on workstations in the past. Normally where a machine is in a strange location and has effectively been forgotten and no one knows the password. It worked OK, but I cannot say if it would solve your problem. You might have to bite the bullet on this one.
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