re: Windows 98 SE Logon password security hole
Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at 3:04 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul D
(827 messages posted)
Logon/passwords in 9x is NOT a security feature, and was never meant to be.
It is there to enable different users of a machine to have unique settings.I believe
there is a registry hack which involves placing a keyword (something like "MustBeValidated")
somewhere in the registry. Try the MS Knowledge Base.
On Tue, 12 Jun, 2001 - 9:50, jezerr wrote:
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>With profiles enabled under win98se and using the microsoft client for login, if
>you pick a valid name of a user on the system, type in the incorrect password, press
>OK, then it will prompt you again for the correct password, then just press cancel,
>you will be logged in as that user.
>It will say the user's name in the start menu as Log Off Jezerr ....
>and also states it in the System Information tool.
>Has anyone else seen this or have a fix.
>Please try this on your system and see if it is not just a bug with the 5 computers
>or so that I've tried it on, all with windows 98se
>
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