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Hackers Beware

by Eric Cole
August 2001
Beginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 39m
English
Sams
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Where Are Passwords Stored in NT?

The password hashes for each account are stored in the security database in NT. This is sometimes referred to as the SAM or security account manager. The location of this file is \Windows-directory\system32\config\SAM, where windows-directory is the directory that Windows was installed in. This file is usually world readable, however it is not accessible when the system is running because it is locked by the system kernel. During the installation of NT, a copy of the password database is copied into the Windows-directory\repair. This copy is not very useful because no other accounts have been setup yet; it only contains the default accounts. Remember, however, that the administrator is a default account. This ...

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