SQL Server Magazine July 2003

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Reporting and Alerting
Learn how to use Snort to detect suspicious network traffic, how to build your CA hierarchy, how to override a trust relationship within a forest, and how to change the appearance of the NT 4.0 logon screen. 		  • Subscribe
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[Access Denied]

Access Denied: Backing Up GPOs This article is only available to registered users. Sign up now and get instant access!

The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) lets you document and back up GPO settings.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Access Denied: Cracking Kerberos Packets This article is only available to registered users. Sign up now and get instant access!

Although Kerberos is stronger than NTLM, Kerberos packets can still be cracked. Learn about the available options for protecting Kerberos packets from attack.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Access Denied: Displaying a Blank Logon Screen for a Terminal Services Client This article is only available to registered users. Sign up now and get instant access!

Learn how to prevent a Terminal Services client from displaying the name of the last user to log on.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Access Denied: Overriding a Trust Relationship Within a Forest This article is only available to registered users. Sign up now and get instant access!

You can't disable the trust relationship between domains within a forest, but you can use the deny logon user rights to effectively override it.
By Randy Franklin Smith 



[Feature]

Building a 3-Tier CA Hierarchy

Learn about certificate technology and how to set up your own CA.
By Joseph Neubauer 

Snort Reporting and Alerting

Discover an open-source platform called Snort for detecting suspicious network traffic and some effective reporting and alerting solutions for extending this tool.
By Jeff Fellinge 



[NT Gatekeeper]

NT Gatekeeper: Changing the Appearance of the NT 4.0 Logon Screen

You can use the Resource Hacker freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete, and extract resources in 32-bit Windows executables and DLLs.
By Jan De Clercq 

NT Gatekeeper: Changing the Full Control Permissions for the Everyone Group in NT 4.0

Giving the Everyone group Full Control permissions is a dangerous practice. Learn how to tackle this problem when you create a new share.
By Jan De Clercq 

NT Gatekeeper: Using SQL-Like Queries to Extract File-Format Information

Need an Event Viewer log file query tool that supports an SQL-like query language? Microsoft's Log Parser could be the answer.
By Jan De Clercq 



[Reader to Reader]

Phantom NT 4.0 Account

A reader encounters an Administrators account with an invalid appended character.
By Readers