Re: Administration password

From: Gerard Bok (bok118_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 23:20:40 GMT

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:53:45 -0800, dougga
<dontsendhere@spam.org> wrote:

>It would be very helpful to know what sort of computer we're talking about.
>With Windows 95 through Windows NT, it is trivial to hack the passwords.

>All of this is idle speculation based on the information you have left out
>of your initial post.
>
>It seems amazing that this rather lengthy discussion would be had without
>this simple yet critical question being asked: what OS are we talking
>about?

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My 10 cents: it's Windows XP.

Win 9x does not have the 'admin account' PJ writes about, NT
doesn't run OE6.0 (as far as I know)

>PJ wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to press a combination of keys and reveal the user
>> passwords? I set myself up as administrator and my children as limited,
>> the day after my 14 year old son knew my password?
>> All he would say is that he pressed 2 or 3 keys and it shows the most
>> pressed keys or something like that, but he will not say which keys, he
>> says it's his secret.
>> I would like to know how he's doing this or at the very least how I can
>> prevent him from finding out my new password, without having to ban him
>> from the computer.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 

-- 
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

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