Re: Local admin password

From: Alexander Klimov (alserkli_at_inbox.ru)
Date: 06/29/05

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To: danoli@adinet.com.uy

    On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 danoli@adinet.com.uy wrote:
    > One of my customers asks me how to change the password of all local administrators
    > of Windows XP workstations. They don?t want to go to each one and change
    > it because they are quite a lot and they need to put the same password to
    > all. Is there any tool to do this?

    Everybody have a solution to the problem, yet nobody seems to think
    a step ahead :-)

    If you use the same password for all the local admin accounts, when
    anybody with physical access to one computer and john-the-ripper has
    immediate access to all of them!

    Whatever tool you use for setting passwords make sure that you set
    *different* passwords for different hosts. 

    -- 
Regards,
ASK
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