Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] ntfs write code

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Brad Bailey wrote:

> A boot floppy that can be found through astalavista is
> a NT password changer and registry editor. It
> obviously has write back support. I've never had it
> destroy the filesystem, either. The author claims it's
> been tested on NT, 2K, 2Ks. I've also ran it on XP,
> and it worked fine.

Some notes,

- NT password changer only makes some minimal changes to some data on
  NTFS that's much-much easier than a full featured write driver

- it uses Anton's code, ntfsfix from ntfsprogs to schedule a
  chkdsk at Windows boot and reset journal file to lessen the
  chance of destroying the filesystem

- I'm about 100% sure the NTFS driver is the old one that is
  known to be very dangerous (a.k.a broken). .... Hmm, I just
  checked and actually the latest release changed to Anton's driver
  that has write-over support.

In short, you are very lucky and/or it seems the minimal operations
needed to achieve by chntpw are working with quite good probability
with the old NTFS driver. And the last release uses what's linux-ntfs
team is working on.

	Szaka