I am trying get an unused server up and running, it booted fine but i was greeted with the login window and none of the known passwords seem to work. The server I am trying to get to work is not a Domain Controller and has not been used in a long time.  OS: Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition  I tried Ophcrack XP (there is no WinServer version of Ophcrack) - it couldn't locate the partitions with hashes. I tried mounting the partitions myself (#mount /dev/hda*x* /mnt/ntfs), but it gave me an error saying /dev/hda*x* didn't exist.  Next I tried booting into a Ubuntu 10.04.3 LiveCD so that I could install and use chntpw - no go, Ubuntu Live wouldn't boot.  Based on what I've read up the following tools may be of help:   Windows Password recovery Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password &amp; Registry Editor Openwall's John the Ripper EBCD – Emergency Boot CD - Bootable CD (R)ecovery (I)s (P)ossible Linux rescue system   I am hoping that someone here has prior experience with Win2k3 Administrator password resets so that I don't end up having to try all of the above to find out which one works.
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I got a brand new Windows 7 machine, installed the operating system, created one account and forgot its password. What can I do?  There is no external CD, the operating system is loaded from somewhere inside the machine.  I already tried to remember passwords and tried all candidates with all possible combinations of caps lock, num lock etc.
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I've configured an ubuntu server with openssh in order to connect to it and execute commands from a remote system like a phone or a laptop. The problem is... I'm probably not the only one.   Is there a way to know all the login attempts that have been made to the server?
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I am trying to understand system administration on Ubuntu. So, as an example, I create a dummy user using   sudo useradd -d /home/linda linda   and passwd to create the password. I check that an entry has been made using cat /etc/passwd  linda:x:1004:1004::/home/linda:/bin/sh   However, when I su - linda, I get    No directory, logging in with HOME=/    and indeed, no home directory has been created. What am I missing?  Thanks.
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I can't do ssh public key login to my server and I think this issue is related to the fact my home is encrypted. I chose the option "encrypt my home folder" under the Ubuntu install setup. The permissions on /home/MY-USER are 700.  I've tried another workstation and everything works fine. I would be glad if someone help me to get out this without removing the encryption.
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I'd like Software Center, Update Manager and some other system management applications to work without asking for password (like sudo does if configured with NOPASSWD) but only asking for a confirmation instead, or even without any confirmation. At the same time I wouldn't like to use no user password at all. Is this reachable?
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While a similar question was raised , it doesn't seem to be a solid answer but more of a theory. In addition my case is a bit different as you will see below.    You will note that I have two home drives, one being a mount to a share on my NAS and the other in question being the one within localhost.  What value do the home and net drives within localhost serve other than being part of default *nix folder structure? Is this anything more than a local representation that exists by *nix default? Is it safe to eject these drives or is the OS using them in some fashion which may not be readily apparent?
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I'm working from the URL I found here:    My ssh client is Ubuntu 64 bit 11.10 desktop and my server is Centos 6.2 64 bit. I have followed the directions. I still get a password prompt on ssh.  I'm not sure what to do next.
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Sorry if this question is already solved.  I changed my Operating System, from Windows to Linux Ubuntu 13.04.   I have 2 partitions:   C: (system) and  M: It's NTFS; there I have my information, music, photos. When I want to access the Disk to use the information, I can't get past this error:   Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/love/Mis Archiivos: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2" "/media/love/Mis Archiivos"' exited with non-zero exit status 14:  The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).  Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.  Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown  Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume  read-only with the 'ro' mount option.    Clarification: I don't have 2 OSes. I only have Linux installed.
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I have Windows and Linux installed on SSD, and then, I have second HDD with data. There is no Windows installation on it, just NTFS partition with data (and second partition Lenovo Recovery, but that's all and I don't need it). When I try to open it in Linux, I get folowing error:  Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/adam/Data: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2" "/media/adam/Data"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.   But there couldn't be any hiberfile, as there is no Windows installation on this drive. I need to have read and also write permission on this drive. How could I do it? Another thing I noticed is that the partition has msftdata flag, but when I open gparted and choose "Manage flags" and remove it, it doesn't remove. How to mount the partition in write mode? Thanks.  EDIT: This is not duplicate of  as there are no Windows or hiberfile.
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my laptop has freezed, I restart it with power button but now, at start up, BitLocker said that:     You need to enter your recovery key because Secure Boot has been disabled. Either Secure Boot must be re-enabled, or BitLocker must be suspended for Windows to start normally.   I gone to UEFI settings and define a password to re-enabled Secure Boot but BitLocker when I restart comptuer said that Bios secure parameters has changed... It doesn't solve the problem.  The problem is I don't have my recovery key. I tried to recover my recovery key using Microsoft account but I had to update my phone number and so my security settings are locked for one month. My question is :   Is it possible to boot on Ubuntu USB key or plug HDD to an Ubuntu computer, copy files and decrypt them one by one with my password session ? Is it possible to retrieve my recovery key using Windows command line and session password ? (I can access to Windows recovery menu so I have access to commands line.) Is a program to decrypt completely my hard drive exists ? I will write it on a USB key, start it, enter my session password and it will decrypt all the disk or something like that.   Thanks a lot.
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I disabled all services and startup applications and now the computer won't let me log in. It will get me to the initial startup screen, but it won't connect to the Internet. Then when I click or press a key to log in, the password box never appears.   How to go back to normal boot? Shift+Restart or F8 to get into safe mode doesn't work. Restoring to a system restore point resulted in an error. Even Resetting Windows didn't work.
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Here is what we usually do when getting a freshly installed windows 10:   Log in with a Microsoft account (as administrator) Set a password.   If we are using Pro version, we can then use BitLocker to encrypt data.  But what if we are using home edition? A  password can prevent entry into the OS, but if one could still connect the hard drive to another computer so that the files in it could be read without knowing the password, then the data were not really securely protected.   , however, seems to suggest that encryption will take place in any edition of windows 10, once you log in with a Microsoft account. I am referring to this part:     Sign in using a Microsoft account that has administrator rights on the device. That action removes the clear key, uploads a recovery key to the user's OneDrive account, and encrypts the data on the system drive. Note that this process happens automatically and works on any Windows 10 edition.   So, does the password set on windows 10 protect files? Could someone circumvent the password by connecting the hard drive to a different computer or installing another copy of windows? Is the situation different for windows 7? Is the situation different for C:/(system) and D:/?
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When a user boots Windows is there a way to only show a single user that then asks for a password. For example, I have an admin user and a regular user. When the computer boots I do not want the user to see the admin account. Is this possible? If so, how would an admin then login?  I have Windows 7 if that matters.
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I have Windows 10 Anniversary Edition with "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" installed and working. I'd like to be able to SSH into this Ubuntu instance, but although I have openssh-server installed and configured (and listening on port 2200), when I try to ssh to "localhost:2200", it tells me "Server unexpectedly closed network connection".  Has anyone been able to successfully accomplish this?
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My initial problem was that my computer wouldn't let me login to my account. It seems to shut down after I enter my password. I can login as a guest.  I found fixes but I can't remember / figure out my login for access after I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and most of the fixes for finding your login username depend on you having access to your account.  I thought the login was the name which appears on the screen when I start the computer normally, but this has not worked, is there another way to find out my username while being effectively locked out of my root-user profile?  I am also assuming that the password is the same one I always use.  Conversely, if the name which appears on the screen at startup and my normal password should have worked, is there another explanation for why I am not able to login on the black command screen.
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I deleted two unused user accounts. Now I am unable to login even into my own account. I rebooted in recovery mode in the root shell and tried to restore the back-up of /etc/passwd. However, the filesystem is read-only!  I can only access root shell via recovery.  Can you help me?
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I had windows &amp; Kali linux (dual boot) then I took off Kali linux Parition so I delete it but I Made a mistake ... and PC won't boot "Rescue grub error" or something ...   but I installed Ubuntu &amp; removed Windows and all .  All is running fine but I just can't open one of my disks , this is the error :   Error mounting /dev/sdb5 at /media/imad/Disque local: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb5" "/media/imad/Disque local"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sdb5': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.   I asked this question before but no one had an idea , help please .