Password decoded from pwl file
Quote:
> Hello All
> Does anybody out there have a sourcecode in VB to decode a pwl file? You
> know those files windoes uses to store password in. I am in a helpdesk and
> I need to get the password so I can inform the user that he has typed the
> wrong password, and try again, since 50% of our time is wasted on user
> typing wrong.
Well, for all I know, you could just be some hacker d00d. But yes, it's
possible to do, using an undocumented function. I think it's a huge
security hole and MS should get reamed for not fixing it. Maybe if it
were more common knowledge, people would demand a solution to it. But
anyway, enough of my pontificating. Check out
http://www.netfokus.dk/vbadmincode/code/passwordlist.zip.
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