Tag: PWDENCRYPT
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Auditing SQL Server Password Strength using PWDCOMPARE
SQL Server stores passwords as salted hash values, preventing us from directly checking or enforcing their strength. However, using PWDCOMPARE we can try to crack them to identify weak ones.
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