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stop user to change password
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| Dieter 2005-01-23, 4:03 pm |
| Goal is to secure company data stored on a smartphone.
The Smartphone is given to employees with device password function
on.
To stop the user to change pw to a smaller or put password off I will
try this:
programmatically test if pw function is on, if not, stop application.
Is there a registry setting for testing this ?
another thing:
writing back password in registry setting or wherever it is stored on
application start.
Therefore I need to know where pw for devicelock is stored .
anyone knows ??
or other possibility ??
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| Scott Yost [MSFT] 2005-01-23, 4:04 pm |
| There isn't a secure way to do what you're specifying. If the user really
wants to circumvent it, they will just change their password around
before/after running your app.
What are you trying to do in the second part? Restore a specific password
every time your application runs?
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Scott Yost
Software Development Engineer/Test
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Dieter" <no1@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> Goal is to secure company data stored on a smartphone.
>
> The Smartphone is given to employees with device password function
> on.
> To stop the user to change pw to a smaller or put password off I will
> try this:
>
> programmatically test if pw function is on, if not, stop application.
>
> Is there a registry setting for testing this ?
>
> another thing:
>
> writing back password in registry setting or wherever it is stored on
> application start.
>
> Therefore I need to know where pw for devicelock is stored .
>
> anyone knows ??
>
> or other possibility ??
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| Dieter 2005-01-23, 4:04 pm |
| On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:18:17 -0800, "Scott Yost [MSFT]"
<scyost@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>There isn't a secure way to do what you're specifying. If the user really
>wants to circumvent it, they will just change their password around
>before/after running your app.
>What are you trying to do in the second part? Restore a specific password
>every time your application runs?
this I want to do.
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