On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 danoli (at) adinet.com (dot) uy [email concealed] wrote:
> One of my customers asks me how to change the password of all local administrators
> of Windows XP workstations. They don?t want to go to each one and change
> it because they are quite a lot and they need to put the same password to
> all. Is there any tool to do this?
Everybody have a solution to the problem, yet nobody seems to think
a step ahead :-)
If you use the same password for all the local admin accounts, when
anybody with physical access to one computer and john-the-ripper has
immediate access to all of them!
Whatever tool you use for setting passwords make sure that you set
*different* passwords for different hosts.
> One of my customers asks me how to change the password of all local administrators
> of Windows XP workstations. They don?t want to go to each one and change
> it because they are quite a lot and they need to put the same password to
> all. Is there any tool to do this?
Everybody have a solution to the problem, yet nobody seems to think
a step ahead :-)
If you use the same password for all the local admin accounts, when
anybody with physical access to one computer and john-the-ripper has
immediate access to all of them!
Whatever tool you use for setting passwords make sure that you set
*different* passwords for different hosts.
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Regards,
ASK
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