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Where does windows save its passwords to?

Design_Dude · 2008-02-12 21:47:29

Hi, im just wondering where does windows save its user login passwords etc to? Is their a like a pass.ini file somewhere? I know it will prob be encrypted but was just wondering where it is?

12-02-2008 9:47pm

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Design_Dude

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Hi, im just wondering where does windows save its user login passwords etc to? Is their a like a pass.ini file somewhere? I know it will prob be encrypted but was just wondering where it is?

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#2 13-02-2008 12:47am

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95,98 save to username.pwl - deleting the file clears the users passwords - zero local security

NT/2000/XP/2003 save to registry in the SAM file

passwords aren't stored just a hash of the password

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