forgotten password on College laptop

NeVeR

Hi all,

My girlfriend has a college laptop, Every now and again the system asks her to change her password. The last time it asked (yesterday) she didnt change it, Not today her old password wont work, and doesnt know what to do,,

Does anyone have any ideas?

AlmightyCushion

Boot into safe mode and log into the administrator account. From here you will be able to go into user accounts and remove the password.

dulpit

Contact system admin?

NeVeR

When you boot in safe mode it still askes for Password.

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The laptop is at home.. It's hard to get a hold of system admin when theres no classes. we are trying to contact someone.

AlmightyCushion

When in save mode you have to log into the administrator account not the account you normally use.

PogMoThoin

Get Ophcrack, worked perfectly for me before on my mams laptop. Download the live cd, burn to a cd & set cd 2 boot first in the bios. It'll take less than 5 mins.

Ghost Train

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

When in save mode you have to log into the administrator account not the account you normally use.

as long as theres not an administrator password... but definitely the first thing to check, type administrator and leave the password blank.

If there is an administrator password you'll need to reset it. There are a few programs that will do that such as http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

NeVeR

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Get Ophcrack, worked perfectly for me before on my mams laptop. Download the live cd, burn to a cd & set cd 2 boot first in the bios. It'll take less than 5 mins.

i downloaded this. there was 2 folders "boot" and "ophcrack" i put both of these on a CD and set the laptop to boot from CD and nothing happened.....

what am i doing wrong?

PogMoThoin

U need to use Nero or Magiciso to burn it as Iso to make it bootable. Sorry, should've explained that

muggyog

Is it a local or network account?

Just because the Academic staff are gone do'nt mean the IT people are not there. I suggest you contact them before you try to hack the password, they tend to take this type of thing badly.

Capt'n Midnight

just get the password reset disk , only reason not to use is you have encrypted ntfs folders but if you ad those you would have made a password backup disk

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Cracks are against the charter over at the windows forum

NeVeR

Thanks for the replies.. She is going to ring them today. She didnt know they where still there, One of her friends said they where so she will ring today

Thanks.

NeVeR

Hey.. We cant get a hold of anyone in the college,, Does anyone go to IADT Dun Laoghaire?

muggyog

Try support@iadt.ie and see what happens.

NeVeR

muggyog wrote: »

Try support@iadt.ie and see what happens.

tryed it twice nothing happened.. as in no reply,

BKtje

Is this a college account that you're trying to log onto or a local machine account?

Does the laptop belong to the college or to your gf?

muggyog

support@iadt.ie does work, I've just sent a test email and got a receipt email back. There is a delay but definitely working. Bit suspicious about this post.

PogMoThoin

That ophcrack does the trick, learn how to burn it as Iso and set your cd drive to boot first in the bios. You'll have the password in seconds.

muggyog

Hope everything goes well for your Girlfriend when she leaves back the laptop with a different admin password!

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Every now and again the system asks her to change her password.

it is likely that it is a network account that is required. Contact IT support and get it resolved.

...... or, change the admin password, get onto the laptop, cause major grief when the laptop is returned and STILL be unable to log on to the college network.

Mac daddy

download a copy of sysinternals and burn the iso to a cdr.
Boot the system of the cd and when sysinternals starts up open locksmith select the account you want the password reset tada reboot the system again.

NeVeR

muggyog wrote: »

support@iadt.ie does work, I've just sent a test email and got a receipt email back. There is a delay but definitely working. Bit suspicious about this post.

We got a receipt... Just no reply... Be suspicious all you like,, i dont give a F**k

NeVeR

B-K-DzR wrote: »

Is this a college account that you're trying to log onto or a local machine account?

Does the laptop belong to the college or to your gf?

The college gave the laptop to her. they installed Adobe CS on it and all so she could work on her stuff.

She is just trying to log into the laptop.. Like a normal login.
I didnt see what happened to it. She told me she was using it the day before with no problems. then when she logged on the next day she got a thing saying please change you password... I think she clicked the ignor/cancel whatever button,, and didnt do it.. Then this all happened.

NeVeR

And for the other ppl saying i should crack it... I dont really want to crack it. I could.. but it might get her into trouble.. I'll get her to mail them again. I'll check she is using the right address.

NeVeR

Just to add she is allowed keep the laptop for the whole 4 years of college.

PogMoThoin

NeVeR wrote: »

And for the other ppl saying i should crack it... I dont really want to crack it. I could.. but it might get her into trouble.. I'll get her to mail them again. I'll check she is using the right address.

The way Ophcrack works is to find the folder that Windows stores the password in, unscrambles it, and places it on the screen for you to take down. It doesn't make any changes or leave any traces. If she's simply forgotten the password it will remind her of what it was This and contacting the college admin are your only two options I'm afraid, unless she suddenly remembers the password.

Mountjoy Mugger

The password she used has just expired, that's why she was prompted to change it.

Finding out what it does won't fix it, unless of course she's looking for the admin password...she can then reset it.

BKtje

Usually when a password expires doesn't it just force you to change it before allowing you to login? At least thats the way it works (how we have it setup i guess) on our domain here.

NeVeR

B-K-DzR wrote: »

Usually when a password expires doesn't it just force you to change it before allowing you to login? At least thats the way it works (how we have it setup i guess) on our domain here.

ya thats what i thought... But She doesnt know what she did... maybe she typed in something and doesnt know what she typed... or maybe she changed it but forgot !.. Someone from the college has PM'ed me so i hope they can help.