where are xp passwords stored

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J said:
Where are xp user passwords stored?

Shenan Stanley said:
Can you be (much) more specific?
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If, by exceedingly vague phrase "xp user passwords," you mean those of
the user accounts for logging into a WinXP OS, they're encrypted within
the C:\Windows\System32\Config\SAM file.


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Thank you for your response. Exactly what I needed.

FMI: What other "xp user passwords" are there than logon passwords?

For ultimate there are folder and file encryped xp passwords. But are these
considered xp user passwords?

J

 
J said:
Thank you for your response. Exactly what I needed.

FMI: What other "xp user passwords" are there than logon passwords?

For ultimate there are folder and file encryped xp passwords. But are
these considered xp user passwords?

J
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The only kind of a password is a string of characters which allows access to
a particular account.
Folders do not have passwords in XP.
The "file encrypted xp password" does not exist. I presume that you meant
the encryption key for the Encrytped File System.
Jim
 
Thank you for your clarification of the XP encryption thang.

I was asking for some clarification of this phrase:
"exceedingly vague phrase "xp user passwords"

So, FMI: What other "xp user passwords" are there than logon passwords?

J
 
Cached passwords for web site login is an example. I'd suggest looking
at SamInside or Cain and Able to gain some password storage insight.

Dennis
 
Dennis Dow said:
Cached passwords for web site login is an example. I'd suggest looking
at SamInside or Cain and Able to gain some password storage insight.

Dennis
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The OP asked about XP passwords. Those cached for websites, etc., are not
XP passwords.
Jim
 
J said:
Thank you for your response. Exactly what I needed.

FMI: What other "xp user passwords" are there than logon passwords?
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Passwords for secure web sites the users visit, passwords for
application-protected documents the users create, passwords to access
email servers/accounts, etc., etc., etc....

For ultimate there are folder and file encryped xp passwords. But are
these considered xp user passwords?
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There's no such thing as "ultimate" or folder passwords in WinXP.


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Thank you for your response.
Passwords for secure web sites the users visit, passwords for
application-protected documents the users create, passwords to access
email servers/accounts, etc., etc., etc....
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To me these are not "xp user passwords."
There's no such thing as "ultimate" or folder passwords in WinXP.
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Yea. I am using vista. So, it is difficult to not also complain about it in
the same breath.

Thanks

J
 
J said:
Thank you for your response.


To me these are not "xp user passwords."
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And just how, pray tell, are we to know precisely what "xp user
passwords" means to you, unless you elaborate? You could even have been
referring to Office XP, for all we could possibly have known.





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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
Thank you for your response.
And just how, pray tell, are we to know precisely what "xp user passwords"
means to you,
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I do understand your question.

In a society that currently cannot use short phrases like "thank you" I can
understand such confusion. When I must add many adjectives and adverbs -
"thank you so very much" - to convey my appreciation 'tis no wonder my
short desciption is to be found wanting.

Next time I will ask with more desciption such as: Windows XP SP3 user logon
names and passwords.

And so on.

J
 
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