
The Offline NT Password Editor

(c) 1997 Petter Nordahl-Hagen

See COPYING for copyright & credits.
See INSTALL for compile/installation instructions.

Revision history 
(chntpw utility only, see website for info on bootdisk revisions)

* PRE-1 970611
 - Got reports on "Netlogon service not started"
   (and then it was impossible to logon)
   if attempt to change blank password into something else. 
   This was because if the password is set blank (from NT), the NT-logon
   hash (md4) is not stored in SAM at all (the LANmanager hash seems to be
   there..) However, chntpw didn't know about this, and happily(?) wrote away
   and corrupted the SAM file, causing Netlogon to fail.
   This version will flag accounts with blank passwords, and refuse to change it.

 - The -i (interactive) option now loops. Will ask for a new name repeatedly,
   until '!' is entered. This enables you to change multiple passwords in
   one run.
 
 - No support for syskey, yet.

* PRE-1 970528:
 - First public release

