I'm in ur obsolete softwares, bypassin ur logons

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat Mar 10 17:21:00 GMT 2007


On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:45:44AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>http://epiclogon.ytmnd.com/
>
>This shows a trick to bypass the logon prompt of win98 without ever
>entering a password.  It's noteworthy only because of the
>creativeness... not that win9x actually had anything going for it in the
>security department, since you could just as easily boot from a floppy
>and just delete *.pwd (or whatever those stored login password files
>were called) in the windows dir.  Or one of a million other ways to
>bypass the non-existant security.

Pretty cool but couldn't you bypass the "security" just by hitting Esc,
too?

cgf



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