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Getting Users Password

  • January 30, 2006 at 9:15 am

    #166921

    Hi All (SQL Server 2000)

    Is it possible for me to pickup what the user's login passwords are.

    Often I have to reset our users passwords as they forget them. What I would like to do is be able to email them back to the user. Is there any way to pick up their encrpted password, decrypt it so I can send it to them?

    Thanks

    CCB

     

  • January 31, 2006 at 3:39 am

    #617900

    I believe it is a one-way encryption and this cannot be done.

    Jan

  • January 31, 2006 at 11:18 am

    #617982

    Microsoft goes to some lengths to protect the user password from being recoverable with a tool.  You will not be able to recover the users original password by any method I know of.  Instead, you only choice is to give them a new password.

  • January 31, 2006 at 11:29 am

    #617985

    Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having a password in the first place?

  • January 31, 2006 at 11:29 am

    #617984

    Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having a password in the first place?

  • January 31, 2006 at 10:13 pm

    #618042

    One disadvantage to Microsoft's approach is the inability to force a password policy. We want passwords to expire every 30 days and not allow reuse. I am unaware of anyway to determine if the current password attempt matches any previous password except the one being replaced. Perhaps 2005 addresses this. NT authentication is not possible in our environment.

    Bill

    Chattanooga, TN

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