chntpw no longer will clear a password, change a password, or activate an account (Administrator) on Windows 10, build 1803. I constantly use chntpw from a Live USB to recover Windows accounts where the user has forgot or goofed their password and I have verified that they are indeed the actual owner of the computer. Unfortunately, I can not longer do this under Windows 10, Build 1803. It is a YUGE deal. $ rpm -qa chntpw chntpw-0.99.6-30.110511.fc28.x86_64 chntpw -l SAM shows all the accounts as usual. chntpw -u "username" SAM goes through all the motions as usual, but none of the requested actions takes
Update: I was able to use the 140201 (2014-02-01) ISO from http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ to enable the Administrator's account and blank its password on a Windows 10-1803 machine. (I did have to manually create /mnt/disk though). I used Rufus 3.1 to create the USB flash drive. So, it is time to upgrade chntpw 110511 to 140201 on the Fedora repo.
Scratch-build here: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=27996676
That succeeded; rawhide build: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=27996824
F28: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=27996842 F27: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=27996853
chntpw-1.00-0.140201.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-6625a35b64
chntpw-1.00-0.140201.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ff3eb69014
chntpw-1.00-0.140201.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-6625a35b64
chntpw-1.00-0.140201.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ff3eb69014
chntpw-1.00-0.140201.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
chntpw-1.00-0.140201.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.