When all else fails...

[Blazer06]

I needed to fix a friends computer. they dropped it off at my house and were to pick it up later.

They were running Windows 2000 Pro, but neglected to give me their password. great...

so in the username i typed "administrator" and left the password blank.

next thing i know im in with all rights.

...


Blaze

[Xeroid]

LOL!

That's funny! They password protected their user account but left the administrator password blank?

[slinky]

I'm sure they just wanted to test if you were good enough to figure it out.

[Blazer06]

Well they had 4 accounts set up... password protected.. but I guess never bothered to set one for admin.

i wonder how many other people out there have done that....

lol Slinky


Blaze

[Mickwish]

It's a common error made by those installing winNT kernel OSes. It's very easy to do, as it will let you skip right over the screen that asks for a default administrator password.

Unlike linux, which demands a default root password and won't install without one. M$ still has a long way to go before windoze becomes a secure OS, IMO.

Cheers
Mick

[crystaldragon]

Thats about as funny as the most common systems administrator password. Some of those guys have real ego problems.




Oh yeah the password?..........



god

[Blazer06]

the three... right:

love
sex

arg what was the other one? (from hackers?)

EDIT...
love
secret
and sex
but not nesaccarily in that order

im so glad i have that movie saved on my HDD

but as not to get completely off topic... i have a question

When installing an O/S for someone... I dont want to leave the admin password blank, but also dont want to just use one I make up... what should I put?


Blaze

[Mickwish]

Was just looking at links about admin passwords, and found this gem in an M$ support article:

Sometimes, the prompt to configure the Administrator password is inadvertently skipped, leaving the Administrator account password blank. To determine if this has happened, attempt to log on as Administrator with a blank password.

Followed immediately by:

The Windows 2000 security framework is designed to fulfill the most stringent security requirements.

'Nuff said.

Cheers
Mick

[Mickwish]

Originally posted by Blazer06
When installing an O/S for someone... I dont want to leave the admin password blank, but also dont want to just use one I make up... what should I put?


Blaze

What I do is ask them for something they will remember. It's their machine, after all.

Some interesting security stuff about admin passwords in this article.

Cheers
Mick