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CTRL+ALT+DEL Login - Rationale behind it?
Maybe a rather noobish question: Why is CTRL+ALT+DEL required at login on Windows systems (I have not seen it elsewhere, but contradict me if I'm wrong) before the password can be typed in? From a ...
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If password is changed on Active Directory, can I ensure that PC must be restarted before logon with new password
Basically, if I have a Windows computer connected to a domain, how can I ensure that if the password is changed on Active Directory that the computer must be restarted before the new password takes ...
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Can accounts still be logged onto if Password Caching is not enabled?
This is kind of an extension of my other question.. If you were not storing any of the passwords locally (caching disabled), would a user some how still be able to circumvent around this security ...
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Security of passwords remembered by Windows
Does Windows XP or Windows 7 encrypt saved passwords?
I'm assuming that the user uses local password to logon.
The user then uses his own computer to connect to server in work and sets the "remember ...
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How can IA-5(1)(b) be enforced on Windows systems?
Note: I've also posted a question for this issue on non-Windows systems.
In NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 3, IA-5 is the control addressing "Authenticator Management". The requirements in this control include ...
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Password History/Password policy
I'm referring to "remembered" password that the domain keeps so a user cannot reuse that password until it has expired in what was set at Password Policy on DC (W2003/W2008).
Where is password ...
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How can I detect users that have requested AD Administrators to reuse an expired password?
There is a trend among companies I've worked at where administrators (or helpdesk folks) give a user a courtesy extension of the old expired password... rather than forcing the user to change it.
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