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Reset Passwords With Administrator Account

From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

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Caveats and Warnings

Having followed these steps, you will then be able to log into the account using the new password. There are a couple of things you must be aware of when resetting the password like this. To protect private and encrypted data from being read by a malicious or unscrupulous user with Administrator privileges, the following information will no longer be available once the password is reset in this manner:

  • Any email messages that are encrypted with the user’s public key
  • Any saved or remembered Internet passwords or user credentials stored on the computer
  • Any files that were encrypted by the user
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