We have our own set of users and passwords for our application and we want to
implement strong passwords.
My question is can you access the windows password policy settings in order
to validate a password the user has typed in?
Even if you cant use the password history for your own passwords, it would
still be useful to use the other settings like minimum length etc...
We could store our own format for the password maybe as a regular
expression, but if the customer have already set up the password policy they
want in 1 place, it would be nice to use it.
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James,
AFAIK, this is not possible, windows doesn't expose an API to validate
the password. The only way that you can validate the password would be to
actually create a user on the local machine. I guess you could hack it by
creating a user (with some random user name), and then deleting that user.
If the password is accepted, then you know it meets the password policy of
the local machine.
Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"James" <Ja***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote in message
news:D1******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... We have our own set of users and passwords for our application and we want
to
implement strong passwords.
My question is can you access the windows password policy settings in
order
to validate a password the user has typed in?
Even if you cant use the password history for your own passwords, it would
still be useful to use the other settings like minimum length etc...
We could store our own format for the password maybe as a regular
expression, but if the customer have already set up the password policy
they
want in 1 place, it would be nice to use it.
Thanks thats what I suspected.
I suppose if hackers' could get hold of these setting it would aid them in
cracking peoples passwords...
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" wrote: James,
AFAIK, this is not possible, windows doesn't expose an API to validate
the password. The only way that you can validate the password would be to
actually create a user on the local machine. I guess you could hack it by
creating a user (with some random user name), and then deleting that user.
If the password is accepted, then you know it meets the password policy of
the local machine.
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
"James" <Ja***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote in message
news:D1******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... We have our own set of users and passwords for our application and we want
to
implement strong passwords.
My question is can you access the windows password policy settings in
order
to validate a password the user has typed in?
Even if you cant use the password history for your own passwords, it would
still be useful to use the other settings like minimum length etc...
We could store our own format for the password maybe as a regular
expression, but if the customer have already set up the password policy
they
want in 1 place, it would be nice to use it.
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