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Article #10Re: changing the password encrytion rountine
From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:00
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Greetings, Please forgive what may be a foolish question from a NT security novice. The blurbs state that service pack 3 for nt 4.0 makes several security enhancements. Reading the specifics it seems to me (a person of little experience with nt security) that the dictionary method will no longer be possible. I am misunderstanding? Thanks Dan Thompson Si Owen <nospam@wordcraft.co.uk> wrote in article <MPG.ee73560eaa987d19896be@news.demon.co.uk>... > In article <65g78r$r6g1@inetgate.tp.ac.sg>, someone@somewherw.from.the.earth > says... > > I am the admin of this workstation, there are many people using the > > computer, some accounts have admin rights, so they can use the NTcrack to > > get the password of other user (including me) and see their info > > How about looking at stopping the EXE from running... having something > that watches for the particular module and kills it. Off-hand I can't think > of the best way to go about this, but it shouldn't be impossible. > > If other users have admin rights they can change your password, delete > your account, etc. anyway! > > Si > > --- > Note: My email address is intentionally invalid to foil spammers. > Change 'nospam' to 'si' for my real email address. >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd2c4,49cedb395a00d3d0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd2c4,public X-Google-Thread: f977f,49cedb395a00d3d0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf977f,public X-Google-Thread: 115e93,49cedb395a00d3d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid115e93,public X-Google-Thread: 10e551,49cedb395a00d3d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e551,public From: "Daniel Thompson" <thompsod@usaa.com> Subject: Re: changing the password encrytion rountine Date: 1997/11/28 Message-ID: <01bcfc18$01520b60$0164a90a@l6025621> X-Deja-AN: 293425514 References: <65g78r$r6g1@inetgate.tp.ac.sg> <MPG.ee73560eaa987d19896be@news.demon.co.uk> Organization: USAA Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,cz.comp.windows.nt,microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel