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when the Password for a wireless connections is stored in Windows it can be red from command line.
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Windows: Script to recover lost Passwords from a unattend/sysprep.xml file
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Passwords for new users or for joining a domain could defined in plain text or encrypted at sysprep.xml or unattend.xml file. But they are not “really” encrypted.
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Linux: btrfs command line examples
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my collection of btrfs command line snippets.
Windows: Recover lost passwords from memory
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if a User is logged on and forget it’s password you can dump to lsa process and recover the password from a dump file.
Two tools are needed:
- Microsoft’s sysinternals procdump
- mimikatz. A tool to play with windows security. Take care when download precompiled binaries. Better get the source code from github and compile it yourself. Its very easy
Lets start. Login as a User with administrator permissions and dump the lsass process
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Windows: Windows did not start. Howto write a new MBR and recover Windows OS Bootsector
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if you migrate a Windows Installation to another Computer or virtual environment such as VMWare ESXi or VMWare Workstation it could happen that the system won’t start.
A typical error when the master boot record or the boot sector of the boot partition needs to be updated or must be rewritten is when
- After Postscreen of the BIOS the console shows “Operating system not found” this means there is no boot code in MBR
- or it shows only a blinking cursor in the upper left edge. 2 possible reasons are thinkable
- MBR boot code is loaded but could not load the operation system => The boot sector of the Windows Boot partition needs to be updated
- The boot(active) flag of Windows boot partition is missing
For all cases you can use the command line program “testdisk” which is part of the most linux live CDs/DVDs to correct this.
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