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Re: MS Security Gotcha (OT)

by scottstef (Curate)
on Feb 17, 2002 at 13:51 UTC ( [id://145992]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to MS Security Gotcha (OT)

I had read about the fact that M$ saves all passwords in cleartext and laughed when I was reading the Oreily Apache book. I didn't realize that M$ and other apps that run on Windows store in plain-text until I needed to get into an old webserver that someone had setup and once it broke, it magically became my responsibility. A quick little grep and I found a plain-text password that I could use.

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