Password Assistance

[ravens_woe]

I'm not exactly sure how to say this so if I confuse anyone let me know and I will try and make it easier to understand. But long story short I need a program to put in a bunch of letters within a parameter to try and get my password back.

 

An employee at my work tasked with changing a password to our server messed up and forgot how he typed in the password. We know how he typed the password (Kind of) but not when/if he hit the shift key when typing it out. For example if the password was supposed to be passw0rd12-34 he may have typed it like this PaSsw0rd!@_34 it is the most important server for our company and the only way to fix it if I cant get the password is to shut down the server and  if I shut it down the company has to shut down as well for a while and that is not allowed. I know a few programs exist that will try random sequences until they get it right and was wondering if anyone knew where to get one and how safe that would be.

 

Due to confidentially I will not disclose the server type except for that it runs on windows server.

 

 

 

[Skiiwee29]

Depends on the security setup of the server and the hashing it uses to encrypt the password. 

[ravens_woe]

3 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Depends on the security setup of the server and the hashing it uses to encrypt the password. 

Most likely at this point I was going to just sit their this weekend and type in all the variables till i got it right my biggest thing is making sure I don't do repeats. So I would most likely run that program on one of our windows laptops and type in everything it gives me.

Edited July 20, 2019 by ravens_woe
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[Master Disaster]

16 minutes ago, ravens_woe said:

Most likely at this point I was going to just sit their this weekend and type in all the variables till i got it right my biggest thing is making sure I don't do repeats. So I would most likely run that program on one of our windows laptops and type in everything it gives me.

Start by trying exactly what he thought but with caps lock turned on.

[ravens_woe]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Start by trying exactly what he thought but with caps lock turned on.

did that tried a variety of passwords but I got to the point where I wasn't sure if I wasnt typing the same thing in over and over again.

[Tea-Sir]

I haven't worked with Windows Server since 2003, and I have honestly never tried this on a Server before. But on regular Windows it works like a charm.

 

There is a CMD command (net user) which you can use to reset the password, and with a little bit of tinkering, you can replace the accessibility button at login, with a CMD prompt. Allowing you to attempt resetting the password.

 

There is a guide to it here (method 1): https://www.passmoz.com/reset-windows-server-2012-password.html#method1

But you will need an install media for Windows server to do this.

[ravens_woe]

7 minutes ago, The89Lunder said:

I haven't worked with Windows Server since 2003, and I have honestly never tried this on a Server before. But on regular Windows it works like a charm.

 

There is a CMD command (net user) which you can use to reset the password, and with a little bit of tinkering, you can replace the accessibility button at login, with a CMD prompt. Allowing you to attempt resetting the password.

 

There is a guide to it here (method 1): https://www.passmoz.com/reset-windows-server-2012-password.html#method1

But you will need an install media for Windows server to do this.

will look into it and give it a shot will let you know how it works out.