UNIX PASSWD SYNC/changing password on NT workstation

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Aug 20 17:09:29 GMT 1999


> example situation: you're on a Windows NT workstation and you change
> your password. does it send the changed password as plaintext over the
> wire the first time, and is it encrypted from then on?

user must be added to domain by admin.  first time, therefore, usrmgr.exe
rpcclient or net.exe is used to set user's password.

thereafter, user changes password from nt: plaintext unicode password is
encrypted with old password hash as key.



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