Re: Password decryption of User accounts From PDC registry

2001-09-06 Thread Nexus
OK, there are a number of steps you need to take. First off, you need to grab the hashes from the registry but the key has SYSYEM only perms on it - as an admin you need to give admin read perms on HKLM/Security. Then grab the hashes out of there (HKLM/Security/SAM/Domains/Account/Users or somet

RE: Password decryption of User accounts From PDC registry

2001-09-06 Thread John Edwards
Passwords are encrypted using a one way system. i.e, there is no way to unencrypt the password hash. You can use a brute force attack on the password (you encrypt your guesses at the password and then compare the encrypted hash you generated with the one in the SAM, if they match, then you've gues