Re: Scanning for blank admin passwords on a windows box

From: Joshua Levitsky (jlevitskat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 17:35:39 PDT

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    I know Nessus (www.nessus.org) can identify machines capable of having Null
    passwords. If there isn't a test already to try accounts with blank
    passwords it would be trivial to write a script for Nessus to do the test
    you want.
    
    --
    Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP, EMTD
    Desktop Systems Engineer
    AOL Time Warner
    
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Jason" <cisspstudyat_private>
    To: <pen-testat_private>
    Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:51 PM
    Subject: Scanning for blank admin passwords on a windows box
    
    
    >
    >
    > I am looking for a fast multithreaded tool that can scan a range of IP
    >
    > addresses and look for blank administrator (or other user accounts)
    >
    > passwords on a windows NT/2000 server.
    >
    >
    >
    > If it can also try the username as password, server name as password that
    >
    > would also be nice.
    >
    >
    >
    > Doing blank password scanning using the following command line syntax is
    >
    > driving me crazy!
    >
    >
    >
    > FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO net use \\XX.XX.XX.%i\IPC$ "" /u:Administrator
    >
    >
    >
    > Any help appreciated.
    >
    >
    >
    > Jason
    >
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