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Yes, Windows NT 4.0 .... I'm hoping Kronos "breaks" soon, then they might upgrade it for a more up to date program with higher system requirements. The problem is all the programs we use, happily run on very few resources so they've no incentive to upgrade the operating system. However Kronos isn't supported now so the sooner it goes down the better in my opinion.
Moira, I could come there and sniff out all your NT passwords. Then they might upgrade knowing I can read their files and email. ;)
Easier than that - just get a job as a team leader and ask for the damned passwords. I didn't realise at first they were there in plain text for anyone team leader upwards to ask for. Now I make sure mine is nothing I use for anything else.
Hi Moira,
That is strange, I certainly don't recall that being the case when I was using NT 4.0. Even with Admin rights all you could do was reset someone's password.
Mind you, we did manufacture weapons of mass destruction :D
Could be the difference. I definitely know that to be true, because I inadvertently locked my machine once, forgetting I was using someone else's login and my team manager just rang up IT to ask what their password was.
I just ordered a laptop with XP pro. I'm just not in a hurry to try this newest OS. I'll try it on my next desktop, in a couple of yrs. All the bugs (or most) should be gone by then.
Basically by todays standards the passwords for NT are clear text. It takes my laptop which isn't a beast of a CPU by any means about 2 days to crack any NT password. The reason there is some precieved limitation on only being able to change the administrators passord is because most utilities just "basically" overwrite the area where the password is stored.Quote:
That is strange, I certainly don't recall that being the case when I was using NT 4.0. Even with Admin rights all you could do was reset someone's password.
If you actually crack the password, you won't know. And an account can be created remotely via LDAP or something.