Windows 95 Original Passwords

Chris Tooley ctooley at joslyn.org
Mon Jun 19 15:56:24 GMT 2000


How do I enable encrypted passwords on the older Win 95 machines then? 
I didn't have to install the PlainText registry hack and when a do that
hack with a DWORD of "0" it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Chris


Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> Chris Tooley wrote:
> >
> > I know that there has been a lot of discussion about 95
> > original not using encrypted passwords, but I was wondering
> > if anyone knew of a hack that would allow them to
> > send encrypted passwords.
> 
> Win95 retail release will send encrypted passwords.  The
> change was that later versions would not send a plain
> text password if the server did not support encryption.
> All windows clients that I know of support the
> challenge/response authentication.
> 
> jerry
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