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Can you retrieve users passwords in Active Directory (Was:Active Directory)

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Old 29th January 2009, 07:45
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How to check passwords of active directory user in server 2003.

Please suggest me.
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You mean you want to find out what their passwords ARE?

You can't. Forget it.
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Phone user
Ask them what their password is
Log in using username and password
Get fired

There are tools that attempt to unhash passwords but they require access to the DC and time if the passwords are (as they should be) complex.

But the real question is WHY do you want to find out their password when, as a domain admin, you can reset it?

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Old 30th January 2009, 18:14
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yes i want to retrive.
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Why do you need this????
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yes i want to retrive.
As I said - forget it. It can be done but it's difficult, fiddly and costs your organisation time and money. Don't do it; either ask the user, reset the password, or if your reasons are not strictly within your company policy and the Law, LEAVE IT.
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Are you an Active Directory Administrator?
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Sounds well dodgy.

As a system admin, I don't think I would ever want to.

The only thing I can think of is when a user has protected their .pst file and left the company.
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Still though the pst password isn't placed in AD and the user account is easily reset.
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Default Re: Can you retrieve users passwords in Active Directory (Was:Active Directory)
Microsoft doesn't salt their hashes so if you grab some Rainbow Tables and a program like Cain & Abel it won't take long. You will still need Admin access to a DC though.
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