Okay, I think I did something stupid here. I had forgotten my Win10 user account (steph) Password. This is an admin account.
1) Using a Linux-type usb-boot utility, I've been able to blank the password. Upon reboot, I entered a blank password but I still cannot login, it seems that my account physically on the computer now doesn't match my Hotmail credentials -or something- and I'm still locked out.
2) Using the same Linux usb boot utility, I've unlocked the 'Administrator' account. Now I can login using the 'Administrator' account but from the Control Panel, I cannot change my own user account (steph) password, the option for it is just not there (perhaps it's because the password is believed to be blank?)
3) Later I've been able to find the piece of paper on which I wrote my original password for my own account.
Q: Is there's a way to set my original password back to what it was in order to unlock my account?
Thanks.
Many Linux usb boot utilities can work with local account only. I suggest you set up a new Microsoft account on your PC, and point it to your old profile directory. Then remove your original Microsoft account from Control Panel.
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I'm required at work to use a Mobile Account connected to Active Directory. I also have an Administrator account on my computer (which is a local account).
Whenever I need to use sudo commands from the terminal, logged in as Mobile Account, the password of the Admin account is never recognized.
All the other operations that need a password input (e.g. the authorization to install Applications) work, so I can't explain why inside the terminal it doesn't work.
I've solved it by putting my user in the list of sudoers.
Checkout this link on how to do it.
Son of my collegue accidently created new user account in windows 8.1 and set it as admin. He also set password which of course doesn't know now. Is there any chance how to reset this password from guest account? Any software from third part or live linux? Thank you for helping
I tried some commands in cmd, but everything finished of course on admin permissions
visit C:/home windows/system32.
replica cmd.exe and paste it on laptop.
Rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe.
Replica the brand new sethc.exe to gadget 32,while home windows asks for overwriting the report,then click on sure.
Now log off from your guest account and on the user pick out window,press shift key 5 times.
6)In preference to Sticky Key affirmation conversation,command activate with complete administrator privileges will open.
Now kind “ net user ADMINISTRATOR “come 2 learn” where “come 2 learn” can be any password you want and press input.
You’ll see “ The Command finished successfully” after which go out the command set off and login into administrator together with your new password.
Bravo !! Now you have got hacked admin thru guest account.
I am working on Windows 10 Assigned Access for Desktop for version 1607.
Mission: I need to get Assigned Access to work with Powershell.
Steps done:
I create a new LocalUser account with New-LocalUser and I enable the account with Enable-LocalUser. To check if the account is added, I run Get-LocalUser and see that the account is created (see attachment).
Issue:
To double check I go to the PC settings for Accounts-Family & other people, but I cannot see the new local user account "KioskTest".
I have restarted the computer but the account is not added to "Family & Other people".
I have spent some time on this and I would really appreciate your help, How can I make sure that the added Local user "KioskTest" is shown in the PC Accounts settings-Family & other people, when using Powershell?
I can Set-AssignedAccess, when I do Get-AssignedAccess I can see that it is there. Trouble is, I cannot login to the local user account because I cannot find the account in the settings for the PC.
It's like powershell has "hidden" the local user account from my client computer!!!
ADDED information + updated images:
After some trial and error I found out the following:
Using NET USER username password/ADD --works perfectly! I can find the user account and login as a customer would. The account is part of the LocalGroupMember
The local user account created with New-LocalUser with Powershell does NOT appear in the PC account settings BUT if you click on set assigned access in the Family & other people the system finds the local user account (see attachment). However you cannot login to the account as it seemingly does not have a group membership! Not great for testing :(
Thanks for taking the time,
Karina
See attachment:
Powershell Get-AssignedAccess
PC Account settings Family & other people
In my case it was a group membership issue. I have created some users with powershell new-localuser, but they did not show up in any GUI and I was unable to log on. The users were only visible in powershell with get-localuser and lusmgr. In settings, control panel 'user accounts' and login screen they did not show up.
I just had to add the new users to the local 'users' group. Once this was done, the new users were visible in all settings and available for login.
I was unaware of that local security policy (local policy/user rights assignment/allow log on locally) restricting login to 'Guest,Administrators,Users,Backup Operators'.
Either add the users to one of these groups or add them to the local security policy.
This isn't really a PowerShell issue and might be better suited for SuperUser. But I would guess that this is an issue with group membership. Unfortunately get-localuser doesn't give membership. So something like this would be the PowerShell way to check which user objects belong to which local groups.
Get-Localgroup | % { "`n$($_.name)`n"; get-localgroupmember $_}
Then check through which groups other user objects are a member of and add the KioskTest account to that group using this:
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "ExampleGroup" -Member "KioskTest"
To validate user is created or not, the below simple command helps. You may try it.
In case user is created you will get below output
Command- net user TestUser2
Output-
User name TestUser2
When user is not present
Command- net user TestUser
output-
The user name could not be found.
I had the same issue. The problem was that when specifying the group I didn´t take into account that before the name of the group needs to go domain or in my case, name of the virtual machine. Therefore the command will look like this:
... -Group "DomainName\ExampleGroup" ...
You can check the existing groups on your machine by typing lusrmgr in Window´s run window.
Operating Windows7
I downloaded and unzipped Openx 2.8.10 into c:/wamp/www/
I started the OpenX installation into localhost and came to a screen:
Do you already have an OpenX.org account?
There were 2 Options: I have an OpenX.org account/ I do not have an OpenX.org account
I clicked: I do not have an OpenX.org account and entered a username.
The username came up as not available.
Tried again with a different username, and again, and again. I typed in a jumble of letters and symbols. Still not available.
AHA!! I went online and registered with www.openx.org. I received an activation key via email, activated my account and successfully registered.
I started the OpenX localhost installation again.
I came to the screen:
I have an OpenX.org account I do not have an OpenX.org account
I clicked:I have an OpenX.org account (!!!)
I entered my newly registered username and password and got:
Invalid user name or password. Please check that the OpenX User name and password are correct. [Yes, I did check. I re-entered them several times.]
If you have recently signed up for a new OpenX.org account, make sure you have gone into your email and activated your OpenX.org account.
I tried again, and again but I can't get past that registration screen.
I realized that the problem was not with the activation of the account openx.org, but with my browser Firefox 22.0a2 (with add-ons security) enabled.
My solution was to use a browser and clear light (no add-ons) that was actually the QtWeb Browser.
The installation proceeded smoothly with only QtWeb Browser.
Thank you!
Brazil
I want to implement a self reset password functionality for Windows 7 users. When the Logon screen prompts the domain users should be presented with a forgot password button which will open the password reset wizard. So the problem is how to add a command button to the standard windows logon screen?
I know about GINA in Windows XP as mentioned here:
Adding command button to Windows Logon screen
But this topic is 3 years old, and with Vista / Windows 7 Microsoft came up with "Microsoft Windows Credential Provider".
Those button are called "Tiles", and they are implemented in a Credential Provider. Anything you read about a Gina will not work in Vista or later.
Those tiles a created by the LogonUI.exe process, itself launched by Winlogon.exe. LogonUI.exe runs with high priviledges. You don't want to run anything there. Besides, any wizard you run will run under the system account. Security issues aside, anything that resets the password of the current user will not work.
But let's assume that you have a solution that can reset a user's password. Like a web site (or a local application) that :
Ask for the user's name
Ask some security questions
Connects to Active Directory to reset the password
Then here is a way to implement the functionality.
Create a user, a domain user if possible. Give it a name and a password easy to remember, like "reset" and "reset". Make shure that everybody knows the password.
Change the shell of that user to Internet Explorer, that you would be running in kiosk mode, pointing to your web application.
Now when someone wants to reset their password, here is what they will do :
Use the standard Windows Credential Provider, like they do every day, but with the user "reset" and the password "reset".
Instead of the normal Windows shell, they will be presented with your password reset web application.
The user resets their password and they are instructed to log off using CTRLATLDEL
They can log in with their own username and brand new password.
This idea can be improved upon if you are ready to write some code:
Instead of Internet Explorer, write a simple web application that wraps the web browser control. if the application is closed, or any other funny business, logoff.
Hack one of the Credential Provider samples to supply the well know password reset username and password, making password reset merely a click away
Change that password reset credential provider's image to reflect the password reset functionnality.