Hello Steve -
As Ashley says, there is a new version of AuthNT.pm in the patches
area for Radiator 2.18, so I suggest you upgrade.
regards
Hugh
At 13:33 +1000 01/4/9, Kent, Ashley wrote:
> >the delays we are seeing are in the 5-10 second mark - would this be
>considered normal ?
>Just as you say - NT is a slow method for authentication if you are using
>the standard AuthBy NT module. I would suggest you contact Mike or Hugh and
>see if you can get the new version of this module. It authenticates by only
>checking if the user's password is ok. The old module checks by actually
>trying to change the password, and hence is very slow.
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>> is there any way to extract a list of usernames/passwords from an NT PDC
>Unless your users are willing to write down their passwords for you then not
>really. You could try grabbing passwords off the wire, or crack the sam
>using something like John The Ripper or l0phtcrack. Unless your users have
>very simple passwords all these will take too long. A quicker method would
>be trojaning one of your network apps, but is it worth the hassle?
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>>are there any other options that people have used that we could implement ?
>1. Install Radiator on a BDC
>2. Patch it with the latest AuthBy NT patch
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>Ash Kent
>Network Security Engineer
>United Energy Australia
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