Re: SAM File

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:21:14 +1100

You will find that you can get into most operating systems
once you have physical access to the machine. In the case
of Win2000, all you need is a Win98 boot disk plus a freely
available program to read NTFS partitions.

"Jason" <jason.peart@tameside.gov.uk> wrote in message
news:d70101c3efeb$2a534880$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all, I was told that deleting the sam file will blank
> the admin password and allow you access to the machine
> which in turn allows you to browse the network, didn't
> believe this till I tried it, isn't this a huge security
> risk?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer!

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