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.SH NAME
chntpw \- utility to overwrite Windows NT/2000 SAM passwords
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chntpw
.RI [ options ]
.RI < samfile >
.RI [ systemfile ]
.RI [ securityfile ]
.RI [ otherreghive ]
.RI [...]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B chntpw
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B chntpw
is a utility to view some information and change user passwords
in a Windows NT/2000 SAM userdatabase file. It is not necessary to
know the old passwords to reset them. In addition it contains a
simple registry editor (same size data writes)
and hex-editor with which the information contained in a registry
file can be browsed and modified.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-u username
Username to change. Default is Administrator
.TP
.B \-l
List all users in the SAM database.
.TP
.B \-i
Interactive: list all users (as per \-l) and then ask for the
user to change.
.TP
.B \-e
Registry editor with limited capabilities.
.TP
.B \-d
Use buffer debugger.
.TP
.B \-t
Show hexdumps of structs/segments (deprecated debug function).
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B chntpw sam system
Opens registry hives
.B sam
and
.B system
and change administrator account. This will work even if the name
has been changed or it has been localized (since different language
versions of NT use different administrator names).
.TP
.B chntpw -u jabbathehutt mysam
Prompts for password for
.B jabbathehutt
and changes it in the
.B mysam
registry file, if found (otherwise do nothing)
.SH SEE ALSO
If you are looking for an automated procedure for password
recovery, you might look at the bootdisks provided by the
upstream author at
.BR http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
.br
There is more information on how this program works available at
.IR /usr/share/doc/chntpw .
This information includes in-depth information on how the
registry works, what are syskeys and some other issues.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@computer.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).