How Do You Recover Passwords Using Ophcrack Livecd?
The next screen is the Ophcrack LiveCD software itself. Ophcrack will attempt to recover the passwords for all of the user accounts that it can find on your computer. This password cracking process is completely automated. The important things to look for here are the accounts listed in the User column and the passwords listed in the NT Pwd column. If the user account you’re looking for isn’t listed, Ophcrack didn’t find that user on your computer. If the NT Pwd field is blank for a particular user, the password has not been recovered yet. As you can see in the example above, the passwords for the Administrator and Guest accounts are listed as empty. If you were cracking a password for a user that Ophcrack shows as empty, you now know that you can log on to the account without a password at all, assuming that the user account is enabled. Look toward the bottom of the user list – see the Tim user account? In under one minute, Ophcrack recovered the password to this account – applesauce.
