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From: Petter Nordahl-H. <pno...@eu...> - 2002-12-09 22:57:47
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > 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. Ah, the floppy is my project :) > > 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 always writes back files with the same size, yes. And only a tiny fraction of them have been changed. And only 1-3 files usually. There have been a lot of reports of the old NTFS-driver failing, usually the changes did not take place. Only rarely have people told about heavy corruption because of my use of it. But there are of course people not reporting. > - 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 It did, yes. > - 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. Yes, I used the 1.6.0(?) patch for 2.4.20 kernel. The write-in-place seems to be more correct. And it also reads much better. But I'll wait and see for the feedback before I can really tell :) Thanks to Anton and all other involved with NTFS! And some off-topic: My next project after adding support for account lockouts/disable and other state flags for the account database (mostly done), will hopefully be full registry write support. I know how, but am just lousy writing code. Then it will also support extending the filesize. And need that too from NTFS-driver. Someone a few years ago used some of my early code to write a registry-filesystem for linux, so that a registry hive can be mounted as a filesystem. I think I've lost that one. Anyone knows who? My project at: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ (as you can see, html and webdesign is not my trade.. :) -- Petter Nordahl-Hagen, pno...@eu... |
