On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:07:45 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> I'm sure if you knew enough about Linux, you could do this kind of
>>> thing pretty easily. I don't have the knowledge required.
>> 
>> That's a far cry from "doesn't appear to be documented".
> 
> ...and why do you think I don't have the knowledge required?
> 
> Maybe because I couldn't find it documented anywhere? ;-)

There's a significant difference between "I couldn't find the 
documentation" and "it doesn't appear to be documented". ;-)

> Yeah, AD works completely differently to the SAM - even down to using a
> different hash function IIRC. Good luck with that! 

I think it still uses MD4 for NTLM authentication (seems to me that's 
what it was), but you can disable that and it uses something a bit more 
advanced.

> [Time for an
> authoritative restore - oh, wait, it doesn't boot! OK, time for a
> parallel install to set up the backup software to restore the original
> data over the top of the boot partition. Yes, I have personally done
> this. No, it isn't amusing.]

Heh, yep, BTDTGTTS.  And no, it isn't amusing.

Jim

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