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)