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| Thread ID: 77240 | 2007-03-03 07:33:00 | Backing up a User Accounts password in XP | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 529673 | 2007-03-05 02:02:00 | If they can't enter a new password just from you telling them to access Control Panel, User Accounts and selecting the Password bit, then do they really need one? | pctek (84) | ||
| 529674 | 2007-03-05 20:37:00 | erm.. it seems to me that the ability to backup/reinstate a password is in itself a security breach? If someone can backup your password, whats the point in having one? |
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| 529675 | 2007-03-06 00:17:00 | Yeah, there's 8 accounts on the machine... They want one to stop each other going in and reading their chat logs etc. In doing the backup its simple enough to take ownership of their files and yadda yadda, but this way I can re-add the passwords to their accounts myself now (setting them up all as limited-users this time around for certain) so they come home at the end of the day and everythings back to normal From start to finish, password extraction took approx 3 minutes, didnt even have to brute-force :D racepics: cat /etc/passwd Can you backup that file? I can on my machine... Thanks guys |
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