Georgia SoftWorks
Windows NT Password Guard
User Manual
Georgia
SoftWorks
Georgia SoftWorks Windows NT Password Guard
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Georgia SoftWorks
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Dawsonville Georgia 30534
Phone 706.265.1018 • Fax 706.265.1020
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User's Manual, Version 1.4, March, 1998
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Product
Description........................................................................................................................ 1
Installation........................................................................................................................................... 2
Procedure............................................................................................................................................... 2
Registration........................................................................................................................................... 3
To Register the Software........................................................................................................... 3
Getting Started................................................................................................................................... 7
Password Guard GUI
Viewer........................................................................................................ 8
Display....................................................................................................................................................... 8
Menu Bar................................................................................................................................................... 8
File................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Print.......................................................................................................................................................... 8
Print Preview............................................................................................................................................ 9
Print Setup................................................................................................................................................ 9
Export....................................................................................................................................................... 9
Exit........................................................................................................................................................... 9
Filter........................................................................................................................................................... 10
Historical................................................................................................................................................. 10
Select User.............................................................................................................................................. 11
Date Range.............................................................................................................................................. 12
View............................................................................................................................................................ 12
Toolbar.................................................................................................................................................... 12
Status Bar................................................................................................................................................ 12
ReFRESH............................................................................................................................................... 12
Help............................................................................................................................................................ 12
About PwdRd......................................................................................................................................... 12
Grid............................................................................................................................................................ 13
Column Titles.............................................................................................................................................. 13
User......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Password................................................................................................................................................. 13
Changed................................................................................................................................................... 13
Pwd Age.................................................................................................................................................. 13
Toolbar................................................................................................................................................... 13
Date Range.................................................................................................................................................. 13
Historical..................................................................................................................................................... 13
Select User................................................................................................................................................... 13
Printer......................................................................................................................................................... 13
About.......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Password Guard Command
Line Viewer.......................................................................... 14
Directory Stucture........................................................................................................................ 15
Technical Support........................................................................................................................... 16
Table of Figures
Figure
1 - Registration Screen.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Figure 2 - Registration: Customer Information...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Figure 3 - Registration Key Entered............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Figure 4 - Registration Successful.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Figure 5 - GUI Viewer: Default Display..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Figure 6 - Export Password Data.................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Figure 7 - GUI Viewer. Historical Data..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Figure 8 - GUI Viewer. Single User ID..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Figure 9 - GUI Viewer. Single User History.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Figure 10 - GUI Viewer. Select a Date Range........................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
Figure 11 - Command Line Viewer. Default......................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Typographic Conventions
Italics: are used to emphasize
certain words, especially new terms or phrases when they are introduced.
Initial Caps Bold: Words that appear in initial
caps boldface represent menu options, buttons, icons or any object that you may
click.
Courier: This font represents anything you
must type.
"<enter>" This represents
the enter key.
User Manual
The Password Guard provides system administrators with password
monitoring control never experienced before on Windows NT!
hank you for purchasing the Georgia SoftWorks Windows NT
Password Guard Software. You will be pleased with the performance, robustness
and unique features provided with this product.
For high security environments monitoring passwords is an
additional level of comfort to the system administrator. Maintain access to all
user passwords transparent to the user. Gain access to secure areas of your
system without being noticed to ensure no inappropriate activity is occurring
on your system. No need to reset a user password when forgotten, just look it
up! Keep track of how frequently users change passwords and more.
The Georgia SoftWorks Windows
NT Password Guard is a tool for System Administrators who need advanced and
immediate password monitoring capabilities in highly secure environments.
he
Georgia SoftWorks Windows NT Password Guard consist of a system level driver
and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Password Viewer. A command line viewer is
also included for users of services such as Telnet.
Once
installed the System Administrator will have access to all the Users Passwords
as historical data starts to accumulate. A variety of viewing formats are
available in addition to report and export capabilities.
NOTE: You must have
administrative privileges to install and use the Password Guard.
nstallation is simple and quick. The same installation
program installs the Password Guard driver, the Password viewers and the
Registration program.
Installation of the Password Guard is simple. Run the
setup.exe program. From Windows NT perform the following:
Run the setup.exe program.
1.
The Password Guard
Install Shield screen of the setup program that contains the name and copyright
information is displayed. Click Finish.
2.
Files are unpacked and the splash screen is momentarily
displayed.
3. Next, the Password Guard Setup Welcome screen is displayed, urging you to exit all Windows
applications before proceeding with the installation. After reading the
copyright information, click Next.
4. The Password Guard License
Agreement screen is displayed. Please read and upon agreement select YES
5. The Choose
Destination screen is now displayed. You may select the installation
directory. Click Next.
6. The Select
Program Folder screen is now displayed. After selecting Click Next.
7. The Setup
complete screen is displayed prompting for the reboot of the computer. The reboot step is absolutely necessary!
The Password Guard
is now installed.
To run the Password Guard you must first register the
software. This entails just a few steps that involve obtaining a signature of
the NT System that the Password Guard is installed, providing this signature to
Georgia SoftWorks, and obtaining a registration key.
From the Start button on the task
bar, select Programs, then Password Guard and then Registration. The registration screen is
displayed(Figure
1 - Registration Screen
1.
).
Figure 1 - Registration Screen
The Registration program will
determine the product and the version and compute the system signature.
Complete the registration information(Figure 2 - Registration: Customer
Information
2. ). The registration information must be provided to
Georgia SoftWorks to obtain the registration key. Several methods are available
for your convenience.
a. Print the information and Fax it to Georgia SoftWorks
b. Save the information to a file and email it to Georgia SoftWorks
Figure 2 - Registration:
Customer Information
3.
Please print(using the print
button on the registration screen) this information and fax to Georgia
SoftWorks - 706.265.1020 or
Or
Please save(using
the save to file button on the registration screen) this information to a file
and email to Georgia SoftWorks - registration@georgiasoftworks.com
4.
Once we receive the information, we can generate a
registration key on demand. We will reply back via Fax or email. You may close
the registration program at this time.
When the Registration Key is received
run the registration program again and enter the key received from Georgia
SoftWorks in the Registration Information field on the screen(Figure 3 - Registration
Key Entered
5.
).
Figure 3 - Registration Key
Entered
6.
Click Register.
Figure 4 - Registration
Successful
You will get the Registration Successful Dialog(Figure 4 - Registration
Successful
7.
).
Click OK
Now the software is registered. You may now run the
Password Guard.
NOTE: If the
signature of the NT System is changed then a new registration key from Georgia
SoftWorks must be obtained. Repeat the registration process.
After the system is rebooted the Password Guard is waiting
for events that occur when users change their password at which point the
Password Guard captures the password.
In order to accelerate the process to getting all
passwords captured and ready for display the system administrator may take a
number of different steps.
·
Ask all users to change their passwords
·
Change password for all users and notify them that
their password has been changed.
·
Enforce a minimum number of days that a password may be
in existence.
NOTE: You must have
System Administrative privileges to run the Password Guard.
The Password Guard GUI Viewer is a powerful yet intuitive
tool used for viewing the passwords and historical data. Sorting on columns,
selecting specific User ID's and printing are available from the Password Guard
GUI Viewer.
Note: You must have
system administrative privileges to use the Password Guard GUI Viewer.
The display contains menu
items, a tool bar and a grid to facilitate immediate access to
the password information for the system administrator. The default display(Figure 5 - GUI Viewer:
Default Display
)
presents the list of User IDs and their current passwords, when the password
was changed and the age of the password.
Figure 5
- GUI Viewer: Default Display
The Menu Bar contains these items
Generate a password report
containing the data currently being displayed and send the output to the
selected printer.
Generates a password report
containing the data currently being displayed and send the output to the
display for preview before printing.
This menu
selection allows modification of the selected printer or parameters.
This menu selection allows the
system administrator to export the password information to a comma delimineted ASCII text file(Figure
6 - Export Password Data). Al fields are in double quotes. Upon
selecting Export a prompt for the
name and location for the exported file appears. The default export file is export.txt with the default directory
as the installation directory.
Figure 6
- Export Password Data
This menu
selection exits the Password Guard GUI program.
Filters allow the system
administrator to select the Password data to display. The system administrator
can choose combinations of historical password data, User ID password data and
date ranges. Each of the filters are active when a check is adjacent to the
menu item. In addition the Toolbar buttons are synchronized with the filter
menu items.
Display
the password history for all Users.
Figure 7 - GUI Viewer. Historical Data
Allows the system administrator
to select a specific user by highlighting the row and limit the password
display to that User ID.
Figure 8 - GUI Viewer. Single User ID
You may also view the password
history of a single user by selecting the History button along with the user
button.
Figure 9 - GUI Viewer. Single User History
Allows
the system administrator to select a date range for the password display. When
selected a calendar dialog is presented allowing input for the range of dates
of interest ( Figure 10 - GUI Viewer. Select a Date Range
).
When in effect the range of dates is displayed in the status bar.
Figure 10
- GUI Viewer. Select a Date Range
The View determines whether the
Tool Bar and the Status bars are displayed. A check adjacent to the menu item
indicates whether the item is currently displayed.
Contains
the Calendar, History, User, Print and About buttons.
The
status bar is located at the bottom of the Windows and displays status
information.
This menu item manually updates
the grid to display any new password information. The grid automatically
updates every xx minutes.
This
displays the current version of the Password Guard GUI.
The grid is used to display the information for the system
administrator. The data format displayed is used when a report is generated.
The columns are sizable by dragging
the vertical bar that separates the titles. You may sort in ascending order by
single clicking on the title of a column. Double clicking on the title of the
column performs a descending sort. The columns may change depending on the
filters selected.
The
Windows NT User ID associated with the password.
The
Windows NT Password.
This is
the date and time that the password was changed.
This is
the age in days of the password.
The Toolbar provides a quick and intuitive way to filter
and print by providing a set of buttons that are easily accessible while
working in the grid.
This
invokes the calendar tool for selecting a date range for displaying the
password range.
This
switches between Historical and normal display mode.
This switches between a specific
User ID and all User Ids. Note: A User ID row in the grid must be highlighted
before this button will be selectable.
This
button prints the current password information in a report format.
This
displays the current version of the Password Guard GUI.
The Password Guard also has a command line viewer. This
can be useful to System Administrators connected remotely via telnet.
Command: Pwd_read
[-r] [-uUser]
-r produces a historical report
-u limits the output to a
specific user
Examples:
Pwd_read Displays
current passwords for all users
Pwd_read -r Displays
password history for all users
Pwd_read -uBob Displays current password for user Bob
Pwd_read -r -uBob Displays password history for user Bob
Figure 11 - Command Line Viewer. Default
Note: You must have
system administrative privileges to use the Password Guard Command Line Viewer.
The Password Guard directory structure is as follows. The
default installation directory is
C:\Program
Files\Georgia SoftWorks\Password Guard
This directory contains
the following files:
·
PwdRd.exe -
The graphical user interface Password Viewer
·
Pwd_read.exe
- The command line password viewer
·
Mscal.ocx -
The calendar ocx
·
RegUser.exe
- Registration software
·
Uninst.isu -
Unistall file
For Technical Support.
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Gather all relevant system information.
·
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also helps you in articulating the question.
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