Georgia SoftWorks

Windows NT Password Guard User Manual

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Georgia SoftWorks

Georgia SoftWorks Windows NT Password Guard

ã Georgia SoftWorks

Public Square

17 Hwy 9 South • PO Box 729

Dawsonville Georgia 30534

Phone 706.265.1018 • Fax 706.265.1020

http://www.georgiasoftworks.com

Copyright © Georgia SoftWorks, 1997 All Rights Reserved.

User's Manual, Version 1.4, March, 1998

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COPYING:

WHILE YOU ARE PERMITTED TO MAKE BACKUP COPIES OF THE SOFTWARE FOR YOU OWN USE AND PROTECTION, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO MAKE COPIES FOR THE USE OF ANYONE ELSE.

LICENSE:

YOU ARE LICENSED FOR A SINGLE COPY OF THE SOFTWARE FOR A SINGLE COMPUTER ONLY. ALL FILES INSTALLED CAN NOT BE REDISTRIBUTED.

Table of Contents

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!

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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.

Product Description

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.

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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.

Installation

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nstallation is simple and quick. The same installation program installs the Password Guard driver, the Password viewers and the Registration program.

Procedure

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.

Registration

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.

To Register the Software.

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

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Figure 1 - Registration Screen

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