Re: password encryption

From: Miha Pihler (miha-news_at_atlantis.si)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:14:00 +0200

HKEY_LOCAL_MACINE\SECURITY\SAM\Domains\Account\Users\

But you won't be able to see these keys (beyond SECURITY) by default. You
have to take permissions first. Only SYSTEM is allowed to access to this
part of the registry!

Question about accounts and 90 days. Do you have domain accounts in mind? If
yes, what domain do you have? Windows 2000 or 2003? ...

Mike

"Patrick" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:8iodf016937pd533vvuh7o7n1pccj14qan@4ax.com...
> Mike ,
> thanks for the quick response. If I look in the registry for password,
> it should be unreadable? what key are they in?
>
> also would you know how to check for inactive user accounts older then
> a certain age in a system , say 90 days.
>
> thanks
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:54:35 +0200, "Miha Pihler"
> <miha-news@atlantis.si> wrote:
>
> >Hi Patrick,
> >
> >password are stored in SAM database and in system registry. They are
> >encrypted with one way MD4 or MD5 hasing function (depends on operation
and
> >environement...).
> >
> >SAM database is located here
> >
> >%systemroot%\system32\config
> >
> >In the end it is up to the users to have strong - hard to guess password.
No
> >encryption will help if users use empty or easy to guess passwords....
> >
> >
> >
> >I hope this helps,
> >
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >"Patrick" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
> >news:3gjdf0h9f57l42ai6aao61nq05nlh33k0s@4ax.com...
> >> Where are passwords held on 2000 servers and are they encrypted?
> >
>

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