I am taking it that my posts in this thread were a bit misunderstood, I am really not trying to cause/ or force proper netiquette.
For ease of understanding... My first post to D.H. ....
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Death Harvester,
Some people just tend to get their britches in a bunch when a newbie posts something that is Anti-security... such as your tool. I think the tool could be a benifit to an admin who needs to get on a particular workstation to log out that user, but if it only works in WIN9X then that may lower its value to todays admins a little. Not many networks are using win 98 any more for workstations. I think you brought up a fine topic for discussion, you just approached it wrong. No harm done. :D
Then nihil posted...
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aeallison,
Nice post to a new guy who could not have meant any harm. I believe that the tool could be useful, as it can be used for demonstration/educational purposes without harm.............and it is relatively easy to get the kit to run it on?
I would not like to run security demos on the real system? it is all part of user education....or do I see things that differently?
Cheers
I maybe should have posted an opinion to this but I figured my next post would cover it, after I read D.H.'s next two posts...
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Hi nihil,
Well, thank you, for your valuable advice, and I'll regard it!
The quotation you provided is very nice.
All the best mate
aeallison,
can you show how to approach it in the right manner?
thanks again nihil
I then posted the passage below...
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The best way I would have appoached this would have been like:
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I found this cool little utility that I think might benifit some of our community members here at AO. This tool would allow an admin to bypass the password protect on a Win9x workstation that a user set absent mindedly, so he could log that person off without knowing the password. Does anyone here ever have this problem and would it be a useful tool? If so I have provided it to you below...
I have not tried your tool nor have I downloaded it. Does this help?
I was simply trying to help D.H. I had zero intentions of causing any problems...