Password reset through windows logon screen

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Hello Experts,

We need to provide an reset password option via windows logon screen.
Is it possible by modifying the default windows winlogon programs or any other programs which are responsible for the process.

Appreciate any help on this idea.

Thanks & Regards,
Amol Kotwal

What I have tried:

tried finding the windows logon files to be modified in order to reset the password.

Posted 8-Mar-17 3:33am

amolbkotwal

Updated 8-Mar-17 4:37am

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Michael_Davies 8-Mar-17 9:59am

Have you tried using the windows password reset disk, create one on a usb stick that then allows you to reset the password if you forget it and get locked out.

Also logon as admin and reset the password of any user.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2017-03-08T04:37:00

Solution 1

If you could modify the existing files Windows would not be very secure. You cannot do that.

For Windows Vista and above you need to create a new Windows Credential Provider and install it. THIS IS NOT A TRIVIAL TASK! If you have no idea what I just said, just buy an off-the-shelf product that does this already, like NetIq.

You'll have the solution a lot faster than trying to write it and you don't run the risk of never being able to login to the machine again because you screwed something up.

Posted 8-Mar-17 4:37am

Dave Kreskowiak

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amolbkotwal 9-Mar-17 1:49am

Hi Dave,

We are trying with below link:-
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/aho/2009/11/14/custom-credential-provider-for-password-reset/

We wanted to launch the URL once this password reset user validates.
If we could do this using the above code that would be great.

Dave Kreskowiak 9-Mar-17 7:42am

You're not going to launch a web browser while running as Local System. I know IE didn't work the last I tried it as an experiment. Also, the security implications of doing so are frightening.

amolbkotwal 9-Mar-17 8:08am

We are planning to launch the URL using the domain user.
do you think is this possible? if yes, let us know how?

Dave Kreskowiak 9-Mar-17 8:11am

Think about that for a second.

If you're trying to reset the users password because they can't login how in the hell are you going to get the users context?

amolbkotwal 9-Mar-17 8:42am

this may seem unrealistic but that's what we want to achieve.

Dave Kreskowiak 9-Mar-17 8:55am

Good luck!

amolbkotwal 19-Mar-17 8:33am

We did it!

Member 13103006 23-Oct-17 22:39pm

Can you email me or communicate with me on how you did this. I looking to see an example as I've been trying to find a good way of doing this for the last month and everything I've tried up into now has failed miserably.

Fausto Licardié 15-Nov-17 11:34am

Can you share your code ?, I need this solution in my job

Krishanu17 20-Aug-19 3:07am

Hi, could you please share the code, i need a similar solution.