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We recreated all of the Unity AD accounts on 5/17/2006. The accounts were given random passwords when they were created. The accounts created on this date which have not used the reset password web page have had their passwords reset to the default Unity password combination this morning.

Any user who has used the password reset web page after 5/17/2006 has a synchronized AD password.

Any user account generated after 5/17/2006 has a synchronized AD password becuase the default Unity password combination is used when the accounts are generated.

This means that all Unity AD passwords should be known to the user. The password will either be determined by the user via the password reset web page or will be the default Unity combination.

Here are some statistics:

By looking at the pwdLastSet attribute on AD user entries, you can tell when the password was last set. This attribute will be set to whenever the account was created if the password was never reset. There were 76,157 total users in the "Unity Computers" OU of the Unity domain.

I am certain that the accounts with a pwdLastSet date of 5/17/2006 were random and the passwords have not been reset since the accounts were generated because all of the resets occurred between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM, the time the accounts were all recreated:

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Password resets on 5/17/2006 by hour:

Hour: 11:00 (Total: 1714)
Hour: 12:00 (Total: 10423)
Hour: 13:00 (Total: 8097)

Total users found by hour: 20234
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20,234 of these users had pwdLastSet dates of 5/16/2006. This means that their passwords were random. Of these users, the ratio of disabled to enabled is approximately 2:1.

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Password resets on 5/17/2006 by account status:

Enabled users reset on 5/17/2006: 6599
Disabled users reset on 5/17/2006: 13635
Total users reset on 5/17/2006: 20234
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Total users found: 76157
Total users to reset: 20234
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The 20,234 users whose password was last reset on 5/17/2006 have had their passwords reset to the default Unity combination.