Reading userpassword from ADAM   

Hello
I am using ADAM on Windows 2003. I would like to read the hashed
userpassword from the Person object? ANy idea on how can i get the user
password in the hashed form either using ADSI API in .NET or using ldif
exports.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Ram

date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:50:14 -0400   author:   Sitaraman Sitaraman@

Re: Reading userpassword from ADAM   

Hi

For security reasons, neither the contents of userPassword attribute
nor the underlying unicodePwd attribute are recoverable, hashed
or otherwise.

Lee Flight

"Sitaraman" <Sitaraman@> wrote in message 
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> Hello
> I am using ADAM on Windows 2003. I would like to read the hashed
> userpassword from the Person object? ANy idea on how can i get the user
> password in the hashed form either using ADSI API in .NET or using ldif
> exports.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Ram
>
>

date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:20:01 +0100   author:   Lee Flight -nospam

Re: Reading userpassword from ADAM   

You can't.  It is a write-only attribute.  Same with AD.

The only way I know of to get pwd hashes is through hacking the DIT file 
directly.

Joe K.

"Sitaraman" <Sitaraman@> wrote in message 
news:%23O3SMDgZFHA.1384@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello
> I am using ADAM on Windows 2003. I would like to read the hashed
> userpassword from the Person object? ANy idea on how can i get the user
> password in the hashed form either using ADSI API in .NET or using ldif
> exports.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Ram
>
>

date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:08:13 -0500   author:   Joe Kaplan \(MVP - ADSI\)