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To this day, I don't know what it was meant for (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's a well known exploit on Windows:

delete sethc.exe (sticky keys executable) from the system32 directory.
replace it with a copy of cmd.exe (name it sethc.exe)
reboot to login screen.
shift 5 times, and you get a command prompt with administrator privileges

Now, you can change all the passwords on the system from the login screen.

Last I checked, it still works, and it's been around since xp days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't you need to be admin to muck with system32?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Just access to the hard drive. A bootable Linux USB could do that. I think you can get there through some obscure way with windows installation media as well.