In article <[log in to unmask]>, Costas Anastassiades
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>I can't help with NT, but AFAIK Windows95 saves user info in encrypted
>files named "username.PWL". You can probably find software to decrypt these
>files or even capture keystrokes and passwords as they are typed (have you
>tried www.windows95.com, www.shareware.com ?).
>
>But here are a couple of early morning thoughts :
>
>-Won't this be like having a lock on your garden gate, a lock on your front
>door, a lock on your safe and yet use the same key for all ?
>
No. It's like if you use the safe key in the garden gate, it lets you
right through to the safe, but if you 'only' have the front door key,
that's as far as you get.

>-Don't NT, Windows95 and Microsoft Mail "remember" some of the passwords
>anyway ?
>
>-If remembering the passwords is the only problem (and not having to
>manually enter them) then you could possibly consider one of the many
>programs that maintain a local encrypted list of the various passwords.
>
>-Why not let users specify their own passwords and if they choose to use
>the same one for all logons then they are obviously compromising security,
>but no one can blame you .... :)

Still gotta type it three times. Wrong analogy though, see above.

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