Can a password change in Active Directory be reverted?

Posted by Jordan Milne on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jordan Milne
Published on 2010-05-28T12:25:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 12:33 UTC
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I often need to log in with a user's domain account to make sure that I've set up their profile correctly, but there's no easy way to do this other than to call them and give them a temp pass and force them to change it (bad, since they often forget it,) or ask for their password (worse.)

Is there any way to change a user's password, then set it back to the original later? I tried to see if there was any way to get the NTLM hash so I could set it back later, but there doesn't seem to be a facility for that built into AD.

Can a password change in Active Directory be reverted?

Posted by Jordan Milne on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jordan Milne
Published on 2010-05-28T12:25:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 17:53 UTC
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I often need to log in with a user's domain account to make sure that I've set up their profile correctly, but there's no easy way to do this other than to call them and give them a temp pass and force them to change it (bad, since they often forget it,) or ask for their password (worse.)

Is there any way to change a user's password, then set it back to the original later? I tried to see if there was any way to get the NTLM hash so I could set it back later, but there doesn't seem to be a facility for that built into AD.

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