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Thanks so much for your reply. &nbsp;That's exactly what I needed.
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Thanks so much for your reply.  That's exactly what I needed.

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Someone asked me to get the name of a file containing the user passwords in an Active Directory environment. &nbsp;I know the passwords are encrypted and I was told in the NT world they're stored in a file.<br />
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Where are the passwords stored in Active Directory?<br />
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Thanks.
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Someone asked me to get the name of a file containing the user passwords in an Active Directory environment.  I know the passwords are encrypted and I was told in the NT world they're stored in a file.

Where are the passwords stored in Active Directory?

Thanks.

Active Directory: How is the password list stored

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.