NAME

       samunlock - unlock users in the SAM user database

SYNOPSIS

       samunlock [options] -uuser <samfile>

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the samunlock command.

       samunlock  is  a  non-interactive  command  line utility that can unlock a user and/or the
       user's account bits from the SAM user database file of a Microsoft Windows system (Windows
       NT,   2000,   XP,   Vista,   7,   8.1,   etc.).    This   file   is   usually  located  at
       \WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM on the file system of a Microsoft Windows Operating System

       On success, the program does not output any informatin and the exit code is 0.

OPTIONS

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -U     Unlock the user.

       -a     Unlock all the users. If this option is used there is no need to specify  the  next
              option.

       -u <user>
              User  to  unlock.  The user value can be provided as a username, or a RID number in
              hexadecimal  (if  the  username  is  preceded  with  '0x').   Usernames   including
              international characters will probably not work.

       -l     Lists the users in the SAM database.

       -H     Output  human  readable  output. The program by default will print a parsable table
              unless this option is used.

       -N     Do not allocate more information, only allow the editing of  existing  values  with
              same size.

       -E     Do not expand the hive file (safe mode).

       -t     Print debug information of allocated blocks.

       -v     Print verbose information and debug messages.

EXAMPLES

       samunlock -U -u theboss
              Unlock an user named 'theboss', if found.

       samunlock -U -u 0x3ea
              Unlock an user with RID '0x3a'.

KNOWN BUGS

       If  the  username  includes  international  (non-ASCII)  characters  the  program will not
       (usually) find it. Use the RID number instead.

SEE ALSO

       chntpwd, reged, samusrgrp
       You will find  more information available on how this program works,  in  the  text  files
       /usr/share/doc/chntpw/README.txt and /usr/share/doc/chntpw/MANUAL.txt

       More    documentation    is    available    at    the    non   upstream's   author   site:
       https://github.com/rescatux/chntpw

AUTHOR

       This program was written by Adrian Gibanel Lopez.

       This manual page was written by Adrian  Gibanel  Lopez  <adrian15sgd@gmail.com>,  for  the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                        6th December 2017                            SAMUNLOCK(8)