Linux and Windows Password Recovery How To

actually if you forget your password in windows box it pretty easy to solve. what you only need is a one bootable Cracker password. you can find so many if you try search at google and put “windows password recovery tools” , there will be hundreds link .but i bet it only give you several method to do it. and of course the most known is using bootable CD that have ability to crack your admin password. this is the list alternative step you can do if you get forgot your windows administrator password :

• reboot you box,and enter the safe mode desktop. just put the user administrator and blank the password.cause usually people doesn’t set their safe mode password.
• you can using free recovery password Tools. like i said before it a bootable password cracker. that will crack your password when you boot use that CD, even it can use as your password resetter,here some list :

1.Windows Password recovery(ww.loginrecovery.com) - Can retrieve forgotten admin and users’ passwords in minutes. Safest possible option, does not write anything to hard drive.

2.Petter Nordahl-Hagen’sOffline NT Password & Registry Editor(home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd) - A great boot CD/Floppy that can reset the local administrator’s password.

3.OpCrack - it a Free Bootable CD that can crack rainbow table.

4.EBCD Bootable CD(ebcd.pcministry.com), intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults.

5.The Trinity Rescue Kit is a free Linux live CD, it can reset lost or forgotten Windows passwords, clone NTFS-formatted Windows drives, recover lost or deleted files, and recover lost partitions.

6.BartPE

7.the Knoppix boot CD.

and next.this is how to recovery your root password in linux box this is may be the only way i know to recovery linux box password.the step is :

• reboot your box, and whe a group of grub showing chose one and edit it. you only need to type this ‘init=/usr/bash/’ you will logged not as the root or as a common user, your do no have access to write.so to get the permission you need to
• mount the root folder,after mounting the root folder you will have access to write.
• after you can get read/write access to your /etc/shadow file. You can then either run `passwd` or edit the shadow file directly to put in an empty string. This allows you to reboot the machine into its normal environment and login as root leaving the password blank and then run the `passwd` program to set the root password. This should really only be done when the machine is detached from any networks.
• if the command ‘passwd’ cannot be execute(coz at some distro it happen) you need to play the /etc/shadow file. change you password there. with encryoted hash of course. you can copy from other box

that all, hope you enjoy

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