Vulnerability Development: Re: Windows XP authentification

[Chris Carey <security () sublimespot com>]

The cause doesn't make any sense to me, but here is the answer..

recovery cd
http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/
recovery disk
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html


On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 04:33, HalbaSus wrote:
> Now I don't know if this is a vulnerability, a feature or a bug..  but it's 
> certanly anoying. On my home PC I have Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.6. Yesterday 
> XP crashed because of a scandisk process (on somedoy's else hdd). I removed 
> the other hdd and booted windows XP... "Your password has expired and must be 
> changed"
> But... Neither the Administrator account's password or my user password didn't 
> worked. Making imposible to log in. I booted in FreeBSD mounted the windows 
> drive and everything seems fine... BTW, I instaled Windows XP as an upgrade 
> to a previous windows 98 could this be the problem ? Does anybody know where 
> the password file is located ?
> Does anybody know what could have caused this ? (maybe the password file got 
> damaged (yet scandisk and fsck did not reported any damaged files))
>
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