Re: Local admin password

StefanDorn_at_bankcib.com
Date: 06/29/05

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:01:03 -0500

    Or alternatively, use passwords that are complex and long enough to be
    secure, so it will take a while to crack it. That way, you have a window
    of time in which to change to a new password, should someone get access to
    the password.

    Stefan

    Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru> wrote on 06-29-2005 10:54:43 AM:

    > 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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