An administrator wants to crack passwords on a server with an account lockout policy. Which of the following would allow this without locking accounts?

An administrator wants to crack passwords on a server with an account lockout policy. Which of the following would allow this without locking accounts?







A. Try guessing passwords slow enough to reset the bad count interval.
B. Try guessing passwords with brute force.
C. Copy the password file offline and perform the attack on it.
D. Try only real dictionary words.






Answer: C


Computer Science

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