Can any one explain to me how to acess a users password?

Question

I would like to check on my sons internet use and activities.(Just out of concern.)

Answer 1

How old is your son? If he is living at home and under 18 don't sneak around him, tell him to show you!! If you cannot communicate, it is already to late to worry.

Answer 2

There are some long and convoluted ways to crack a password, but they're not very straightforward.

If you're worried about your son's internet use, try this:
1. Move the computer with internet access into a common room, like the living or dining room: lack of privacy online will be a natural deterrent to some bad behavior.
2. Buy a parental control/content filter package: then you can set limits and review data without having to hack your son's password.

Answer 3

If it's your son, then be a parent & lock the pc down with parental control software.

& if the little monkey won't let you have the password... fine... take the pc away & clean reinstall the OS & you determine the passwords. Make yourself Admin & only give him user rights. That way he can't ever lock you out again. Let him whine & cry, remind him that his actions have brought this upon him.

There are ways to get the password, but if you are the parent.... take control. There is no reason why a child should be the boss.

Answer 4

Accessing a user's password is relatively easy if you have physical access to a machine running the Windows OS. There are a number of free and commercial utilities designed to retrieve a Windows system's password hash and run a brute-force attack to reveal passwords as plain text. Ophcrack, available for free from SourceForge, is one such utility. You can find it at http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/. Winternals (http://www.winternals.com) makes a commercial product that is capable of resetting a computer's admin password, giving you access to all accounts. If I were you and wanted to find out what my son is seeing when he logs in, I'd probably log in as the administrator and install a key logger. This would not only reveal his passwords, but also the text of any emails he writes, IM chats, etc.

Answer 5

You don't - passwords are secure. You can, however, use a high-level access user such as "root" or "administrator".

If you are concerned about your son's computer usage then I would suggest moving the computer to a communal area.

You can also install parental control software.

Answer 6

Without verifying you are who you say you are, NO, if you email me, Maybe.. Good luck