Originally posted here by DBEAUCHAMP
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a legal way of doing it without having the user's conscent ! Even if you are a Administrator of the domain.
Actually, I don'T think cracking users passwords is illegal if you are the admin and have the appropriate authority: the network and systems are property of the company, as well as all the work done on them. You should probably specify it in the policy though so users know...

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Have u tried to change password on the domain and to see if this could help ? I'd be surprised though since I think that the token having the password and all as to be remake on the next user login or establish a password change by the user itself.
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I'd be intersted in hearing the results of that... (Heck, I'll try it monday when I get back to work..)

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I don't know, but is there a law that could permit you to get your user sign a kind of legal conscent that when this kind of situation happens, they'd let you use a software like @stake LC4 to get their current password and then unlock their station and finaly make sure to inform the user of the changes made to their account ? If so, here's your solution...
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Like I said, no law are against it since the company owns everything and you are authorized as the admin to do that. It doesn't constitute unauthorized access, theft of data or anything...

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For my part I'd suggest trying to run such scripts as batch jobs (ie: through the task scheduler for example. ) so they don't run as interactive and wouldn't be ended on logout (I'm not sure but I think it should work... and it's probably worht a try...

(this might give hints: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...d_urs_wyxu.asp)

Ammo