Re: Sysprep error/bug? admin password encrypted=yes

From: GeneL (glaisne_at_nillspamBU.edu)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:19:17 -0500

No, it has a full ligit password. I recently tried resetting the password using a UNIX util, but that had no effect. Currently I'm testing a reinstall over itself to see if that clears/resets itself.
As a note, I have also attempted to delete the "%WINDIR%\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User" mentioned (by you ;) ) here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=%23FNg7U0GDHA.2108%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsystem32%255Cmicrosoft%2Bsysprep%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den

I'll be sure to post the results of my most recent test.

Thanks for any assistance!
--Gene

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:19:36 GMT, scottmca@online.microsoft.com (Scott McArthur [MSFT]) wrote:

>Gene,
>
>Is the administrator password in the image set to blank?
>
>Scott McArthur[MS]
>Microsoft Windows Server Setup Support
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>| Hello all,
>|
>| I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I have an XP image
>that has been working on a set of images and recently I wanted to make some
>updates (something I have done many times before).
>| One of the changes was to make the admin password in the sysprep.inf
>encrypted. So, created a new sysprep.inf file with the password encrypted
>and copied the password= and passwordencripted= lines to
>| the old sysprep.inf, and tested the sysprep.
>|
>| When the system came up the second time (setting net work...) it said
>that it couldn't change the administrator password.
>|
>| Basically, it works with the password cleartext, but not encrypted. Can
>anyone tell why this is?
>|
>| Thanks in advance.
>| --Gene
>|

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