polenum(1)

polenum1

Extracts the password policy from a windows system

Usage

polenum [username [:password] @] <address> [--protocols [protocol list ...]]

Overview

This is a simple security-oriented tool. Aims to help system administrators to improve security.

Options

There are only two possible options with protocol list:

445/SMB

Use TCP port 445 to probe Microsoft-DS SMB file sharing.

139/SMB

Use NetBIOS over TCP/IP Session Service. In order use the session service of the old NBT protocol that runs on TCP port 139.

Examples

polenum user:[email protected] --protocols '445/SMB'

Tries to get the password policy of the system 192.168.1.13 by logging in with the provided user name and password using SMB port 445.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 9–10
  2. 11–13

From polenum 1.6.1-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.