Re: NT Administrator Password
From: Neil Moore-Smith (nms_at_moore-smith.co.uk)
Date: 09/19/03
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:40:09 +0100
Steve
Uncrackable is impossible, as in theory you can brute-force it with every
combination of letters/characters. It just takes a long time.
My solution is to change the domain Administrator password regularly. This
can be a pain in the neck because you have to change lots of service
accounts on servers. I use a tool called Password Pro to do this
automatically across the domain, so it's a doddle. It also changes local
machine account passwords, in case someone is logging as the local
Administrator and reading his personal folders. People often build a machine
and set Administrator to use the same password, and never change it. That's
risky.
That utility is at http://www.crescendo.ltd.uk and it's inexpensive.
Regards
Neil
"steve" <steve@trisys.co.uk> wrote in message
news:SMoYa.3302$R6.357166@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net...
> Hi All,
>
> I have a very paranoid boss who is certain that his emails are being read
by
> someone with the admin password. To try and calm him I have changed the
> admin password to something that I only know about - however, we all know
> that you can obtain password hacking tools straight from the web.
>
> Is there a way to make an administrators password impossible to crack ??
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
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