Password management on Windows Domain Controller

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Guest

Hi,
Does anybody know where the domain user passwords are stored on a Windows
Domain Controller?
According to my investigation, on Windows systems instead of storing the
passwords directly, password hashes (i.e. encrypted passwords) are stored on
the system. I would like to know where they are stored in Active directly and
is it possible to retrieve them.
I know that there are these three attributes in the Active directory schema
– userPassword, dbcsPwd and unicodePwd, which are used to store password
related information. But I m not sure how these attributes are used by the
system and is it possible to retrieve their values.

Any help on this would be appreciated.
Leena
 
Hi,

Try to avoid multi-posting and use cross posting (enter all newsgroups that
you need to post to in Newsgroups: filed).

Mike
 
Hy Miha

And do you have an answer? I'm searching desperately the internet for "in a
way" the same question...

Thanks

Cheers Marcel
 
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