Re: Avoid Administrator password hacking ????

From: Robert Moir (robspamtrap+msnews_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/02/05 

Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:09:37 +0100

serge calderara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all the fact of not allowed my customers to update anything
> is simply linked to the simple developper situation that always
> aoocurs when new version arrive : DLL of HELL. And the only way to
> secure a standard system is to fixed it with a particular version of
> files.
>
> Now going back to my main issue, I do not want to get tool that reset
> admin password, I need to know how I can prevent it to be reseted
> with those tools

You can't, or rather you might be able to block the odd thing here and there
but you're essentially entering an arms-race that you will not win. If I can
touch the machine physcially, and I'm determined to get in, I own the
machine. End of story. 

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