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SAMPASSWD(8)							  SAMPASSWD(8)

NAME
       sampasswd - reset passwords of users in the SAM user database

SYNOPSIS
       sampasswd [options] -uuser <samfile>

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page documents briefly the sampasswd command.  This manual
       page was written for the Debian distribution because the original  pro‐
       gram does not have a manual page.

       sampasswd  is  a	 non-interactive command line utility that can reset a
       user's password and/or the user's account bits from the SAM user	 data‐
       base  file  of a Microsoft Windows system (Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista,
       7, 8.1, etc.).  This file is usually located at	\WINDOWS\system32\con‐
       fig\SAM on the file system of a Microsoft Windows Operating System

       On  success,  the  program  does not output any informatin and the exit
       code is 0.

OPTIONS
       -h     Show summary of options.

       -r     Reset the user's password.

       -a     Reset all the users. If this option is used there is no need  to
	      specify the next option.

       -u <user>
	      User to change. The user value can be provided as a username, or
	      a RID number in hexadecimal (if the username  is	preceded  with
	      '0x').  Usernames including international characters will proba‐
	      bly not work.

       -l     Lists the users in the SAM database.

       -H     Output human readable output. The program by default will	 print
	      a parsable table unless this option is used.

       -N     Do  not  allocate	 more  information,  only allow the editing of
	      existing values with same size.

       -E     Do not expand the hive file (safe mode).

       -t     Print debug information of allocated blocks.

       -v     Print verbose information and debug messages.

EXAMPLES
       sampasswd -r -u theboss
	      Reset the password of a user named 'theboss', if found.

       sampasswd -r -u 0x3ea
	      Reset the password of the user with RID '0x3a'.

       samusrgrp -r -a
	      Reset the password of all the users in the Administrator's group
	      (0x220)

       samusrgrp -r -f
	      Reset  the  password of the administrative users with the lowest
	      RID number.  This does not include  the  built-in	 administrator
	      (0x1f4)  unless no other administrative user can be found in the
	      database file.

KNOWN BUGS
       If the username includes international (non-ASCII) characters the  pro‐
       gram will not (usually) find it. Use the RID number instead.

SEE ALSO
       chntpwd, reged, samusrgrp
       You will find  more information available on how this program works, in
       the	text	  files	     /usr/share/doc/chntpw/README.txt	   and
       /usr/share/doc/chntpw/MANUAL.txt

       More   documentation  is	 available  at	the  upstream's	 author	 site:
       http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

AUTHOR
       This program was written by Petter N Hagen.

       This   manual   page   was   written   by   Javier   Fernandez-Sanguino
       <jfs@debian.org>,  for  the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
       others).

				6th August 2014			  SAMPASSWD(8)

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