Infosecurity magazine posted an article that supposedly shows how you can execute some commands to start windows xp up without a password. The article presents this as a "juicy" hack;
They also make a feeble attempt at classifying the feat;
What FUD! Lets clarify a few things;
the short tutorial shows how, with the judicious use of the XP run command and tripping an executable, it is possible to start up Windows XP without requiring a
password
They also make a feeble attempt at classifying the feat;
Infosecurityisn't really sure either, but the breathtakingly
simple security bypass appears to have been coded as a backdoor to
Windows XP for administrators who have lost their password.
What FUD! Lets clarify a few things;
- You need a valid login to do this
- Your user will need privileges to do this
- It will prompt you for the username and password to automatically log you on with the next time it starts up.
- It defaults to the current user so in this case they are running the control as the user Administrator.