RE: Windows XP / 2K3 Default Users

["ep" <captgoodnight () hotmail com>]

I crack these routinely when pentesting/playing, granted, it's by pushing
the sam through rainbow tables, thus admin access...
Basically, any sam once in hand, is cracked these days via rainbowtables.
There're ways to prevent this from happening, but most admins don't go that
extra step...

--cg

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of Joey Peloquin
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:38 PM
To: s-williams () nyc rr com; Pen-Testing
Subject: Re: Windows XP / 2K3 Default Users

s-williams () nyc rr com wrote:
> Hello list this might be an easy question to answer but have anyone 
> been sucessful in using windows built in default accounts when doing a 
> password audit. I
know  most
> xp machines has (help assitant and support_xxxxxxxx). Is their a 
> default
list out
> there some where with various vendor OS  passwords, or a way to figure 
> out the password for these accounts.
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

You can try to crack them through normal means, but it'd likely be a futile
act since a) they are randomized and *extremely* complex (as far as I
recall) and b) even my ~13 year old knows to restrict these accounts.  There
are clueless admins out there though, so, *shrug*.

-jp



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