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sampasswd (8) Linux Manual Page

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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 program 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 database file of a Microsoft Windows system (Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, etc.). This file is usually located at \WINDOWS\system32

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