Hi, I had trouble getting the pwdump program to work correctly on a german version of NT4SP3. I believe the problem is based on the fact that the german group 'Administrators' is called 'Administratoren', and Administrators is hard-coded into the utility. Would it be possible to make that an optional parameter? Unfortunately, I have no access to a C-Compiler on an NT-station, so I cannot try it myself to ensure that this really was the problem. I have found no way of manually modifying the rights on the SAM that was reversible, so I'd like to see pwdump work on foreign (german) NTs. Bye, Mike -- Michael Sievers mail : msievers@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Hamburg phone: 040 611 35 - 455 Habichtstrasse 41 fax : 040 611 35 - 460 D-22305 Hamburg
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Michael Sievers wrote:> Hi, > > I had trouble getting the pwdump program to work correctly on a german > version of NT4SP3. > > I believe the problem is based on the fact that the german group > 'Administrators' is called 'Administratoren', and Administrators is > hard-coded into the utility. Would it be possible to make that an optional > parameter?The pwdump program checks to se if you are logged in as "Administrator", and if you are not the program terminates. You can find a version without this check on this URL: http://www.uio.no/~bjartk/pwdump/
Michael Sievers wrote:> I had trouble getting the pwdump program to work correctly on a german > version of NT4SP3. > > I believe the problem is based on the fact that the german group > 'Administrators' is called 'Administratoren', and Administrators is > hard-coded into the utility. Would it be possible to make that an optional > parameter? > > Unfortunately, I have no access to a C-Compiler on an NT-station, so I > cannot try it myself to ensure that this really was the problem. > > I have found no way of manually modifying the rights on the SAM that was > reversible, so I'd like to see pwdump work on foreign (german) NTs.Sorry about that. I added the stupid "Administrators" check in an unsuccessful attempt to convince the press that pwdump was not a hacking tool :-). You'll need to get someone with a C compiler to re-compile without this (pointless) check. Regards, Jeremy Allison, Samba Team. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. --------------------------------------------------------