Re: Windows 2K/XP/2K3 password question

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 03/31/05

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    "Matt Gibson" <mattg@blueedgetech.ca> wrote in message
    news:uQdp8sUNFHA.4052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
    > Gah.
    >
    > Must...learn to read...post...
    >
    > Agreed, I'm not too sure about that one. I have a feeling they'd be the
    > same, but not sure at all.
    >
    > Thanks Roger.
    >

    No problem Matt.
    I have a feeling that they are actually safely tucked away in
    the system's secrets but such that the pwd is recoverable for
    use during initialization of the service by the scm. 

    -- 
Roger
>
> "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:%23JvQx1TNFHA.3192@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > "Matt Gibson" <mattg@blueedgetech.ca> wrote in message
> > news:O2QBH1KNFHA.1884@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> One way hash.
> >>
> >> You can use tools like dumpsec to dump the SAM.
> >>
> >> Matt Gibson - GSEC
> >>
> >
> > While that is so of accounts and their passwords, I am not
> > so sure that is also true for the service acct/pwd information
> > about which the poster asks.
> >
> > -- 
> > Roger
> >
> >>
> >> "Shangwu" <sqi@nospam.net> wrote in message
> >> news:ulLh91JNFHA.3784@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible to retrieve the password of a service's logon account
in
> >> > user mode program or kernel mode driver?
> >> > How does Windows save a password? I know it is saved in SAM registry?
> > Does
> >> > Windows encrypt a password in one way (hash, non-decryptable) or two
> > ways
> >> > (decryptable) approach?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Shangwu
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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