Fedora 15 Update: chntpw-0.99.6-16.110511.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-15265
2011-11-02 06:38:23
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Name        : chntpw
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 0.99.6
Release     : 16.110511.fc15
URL         : http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
Summary     : Change passwords in Windows SAM files
Description :
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid
(local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista etc system. You do not
need to know the old password to set a new one. It works offline, that
is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD
or another system. Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled
out user accounts! There is also a registry editor and other registry
utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things
than password editing.

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Update Information:

As #750005 notes, here's the changelog since the previous version. We tried=
 to preserve robustness patches from the previous version which still apply.

* v 0.99.6 110511

regedit library (chntpw and reged uses it):
- Hive expansion! Library now does hive file expansion by
  default! (but you can turn it off, safe mode). If expansion occured, you
  will get a warning when saving the hive.
- There were a lot of goofs by me in the add/delete key and value
  handling, which made windows complain and lose data. Hope I managed
  to fix them.
- Also, found out more about how Windows does things, for example:
  - Empty name (default) value, flag field is 0 (not 1 as usual)
  - Values with data size 0 to 4 the value data itself is stored in
  the data pointer field, typical for DWORD (this I knew a long time
  ago), sign bit of data size field is then set. BUT..
  - In a lot of cases in SAM, for null name values, size is 0 with sign
  set. In that case, the data dword is stored in the TYPE field,
  and the rest is unused. This saves a few bytes of course.. but why?
  The rest of the stuff registry is used for is often seriously bloated
  anyway. Did the guys at MS who actually wrote the SAM stuff back
  in the NT3 days actually do it because they cared? or just because
  they found something new and exiting they smoked? :)
  - Large values (seems to be from around 16k) are split internally in
  several parts. Sounds smart. But it goes via 2 (two) separate data
  structures that has to be allocated.
  For regular small values the data pointer simply points to the data
  itself. For this split large value it points to a "db" struct. This
  contais a count of how many parts there are. And then the list of
  pointers to the data parts? Nope. It points to another area where
  the list of pointers are stored.
  Pseudo: vk.ofs_data -> db.list -> list[n] -> raw data block n
  The last raw data block always allocates the whole hbin (usually
  16k) it is in, even if all of it is not needed. Of course only the correct
  amount of data is copied out based on the value length.
  On new Vista64 bit SP2, this happens at least 2 times in
  SOFTWARE\Microsoft tree.
reged:
- On popular demand: .reg file import!! (-I)
- Will read files from regedit.exe in most cases
  (UTF-16) but can miss on some international characters. Also reads
  "latin" (8 bit) files.
- Only one .reg and hive at a time supported.
- Did quite a lot of testing by importing for example the
  SOFTWARE\Classes tree with regedit.exe and importing it again into
  the DEFAULT hive with my tool, then ask windows to "Load hive" (in
  regedit.exe). If it does not complain in the event log, it is good.
  (Also, seems like windows has gotten better at not bluescreening on
  a corrupt registry hive, did not get a single one when doing this
  with pretty messed up hives in win7 and Vista)
- Be aware that .reg import is currently very slow, since I messed
  up the design for the string reading badly, and also the add routines is
  not exactly optimized. Consider it a proof of concept! Example:
  Import of SOFTWARE\Microsoft tree (exported by regedit.exe) into the
  small DEFAULT hive took more than 10 minutes on a pretty fast
  machine. Especially hex data is slow (one byte at a time.. lazy me..)
- WARNING: .reg file import does not do much sanity checking of the
  input .reg file. It will either crash during import or mess up
  the registry if the .reg file is bad.
- WARNING2: Limitation: Be careful when importing keys that has large
  number of subkeys (like several 1000) since it does not split up
  into indirect indexes (lh) yet, and windows may not like it.
- -N and -E options for safe mode edit (no alloc and no expand hive)
- Importing (-I) and then into edit (-e) before save possible, =

  by specifying both options.
- -I and -C (-IC) will import and auto-save, use this in scripts.
chntpw:
- This version has no significant changes in the password (reset)
  handling part of the tools.
TODO list:
- Windows like API. Faster .reg import. Fix bugs! Maybe not in that
order :)


* v 0.99.6 100627
 chntpw:
 - Syskey not visible in menu anymore, but is still selectable as # 2
   This because too many people just went ahead without understanding
   its purpose, and the emailed me when things went as expected, that
   is it went *boom*
 - Interactive menu adapts to show most relevant selections based
   on what is loaded
 reged:
 - Patches from Frediano Ziglio adding or fixing:
   buffer overflow in export_subkey printing keyname
   some quoting error (name and string values must be quoted)
   missing support for wide character encoding in keys and value names
 regedit library (chntpw and reged uses it):
 - New function from  Aleksander Wojdyga: dpi, to decode product IDs
   Can be used on for example \Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
   to find the systems product ID in cleartext.
   Now as command in registry editor, but may be moved to chnpw menu later.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Nov  1 2011 Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org> - 0.99.6-16.110511
- Update to latest upstream (110511) (#750005).
- Update fedora patches to apply cleanly, dropping useless hunks
  as needed.
- Add upstream version to "Release" tag, so that people can
  actually tell which version of upstream we're shipping from the
  rpm version.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use =

su -c 'yum update chntpw' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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