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Logging/Obtaining Passwords on Workstati

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by davisins

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This may be a very easy question. I am very curious how I would obtain passwords on 3rd party E:mail servers such as Yahoo, Hot Mail etc. I have a peer to peer network with some workstations running Win 98 SE and others Win 2000 Pro. How could I log the workstations to obtain these passwords. Some users of the workstations have set up different E:mail accounts and they need to be monitored for appropriateness but I need to somehow obtain the passwords for these E:mail accounts. Please advise ASAP.

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by lo

Hi - Not a solution, just a suggestion / warning.

Depending on your company, employees, policies, etc. what you are attemption has many legal impact. Before you do anything like that, get with your Security and HR to verify that doing so is OK, within company policy and that your company is covered should one of the employees decide to sue for invasion of privacy (there are cases on record of same/similar I think).

One of the requirements is that your company has notified employees that PCs, accounts, time, etc. are company property and missuse is grounds for ...

by davisins

This is for everyone who wants to answer this question. I completely inderstand the legal implications of doing this. I would really appreciate an answer and not a lecture. To Lo who recently answered the question with a speech. Don't you have anything else to do. In summary. Do you have an answer to this question or not.

by lo

To Lo who recently answered the question with a speech.
>>Didn't think it was speech, just a heads up. This is a tech interchange (or I thought it was).

Don't you have anything else to do.
>>Yes, but ...

Do you have an answer to this question or not.
>>Thought I indicated in the respones that I didn't really have a solution. If I had one, I would have added to the post I left.

Apologies if you are upset with my respones. As a 'free' forum, you kind of take you chances on posting, getting answers, getting rejected for 'good' answers (I would not have expected and Accept on this, it didn't answer the question), etc., no?

by aholgate

From your responce to "Lo" I would say a few things. One a Yahoo, Hotmail, etc mail account is not your business, your companies business or anyones except for the person who uses the account. If this was an Exchange, cc:Mail, Notes account the is on a company server I would agree that it is company owned and if proper notification has been given to the employee and there was justification to review their account. What it seem like here is that you are a hacker trying to cause trouble and snoop into peoples business because they probably said you were a MORON!

Get a life you jerk! And go back to school

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