bizarro,

This sounds like a cool project. Instead of just limiting it to your company have you considered shaing it with all of us?

As far as security and password resetting you sounded worried about I am sure most here have seen
The Offline NT Password and Registry Editor
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

It does sound like you have enough Linux knowledge that you could even take things to the next step and offer disk backup, cloaning/imaging.

Knoppix comes with Mondo Rescue http://mondorescue.org/ . However that won't run on a RAM drive i.e. Knoppix Live CD. The author even says he has two lines of C code that could be changed by "anybody" to make it work on a RAM drive etc. Unfortunatly the Author does not want to create an open source project that supports closed suource work.

If you or someone could add backup/cloaning/imaging support it would truly make a strong rescue disk.

Here are a few references to the Mondo/Windows issue:
http://forum.mondorescue.org/viewtop...indows+knoppix

http://forum.mondorescue.org/viewtop...indows+knoppix

http://forum.mondorescue.org/viewtop...noppix+2+lines