on january 1 2015 the ontario power authority opa merged with the independent electricity system operator ieso to create a new organization that will combine the opa and ieso mandates and continue the high quality work both organizations are known forfind out moren january 1 2015 the ontario power authority opa merged with the independent electricity system operator ieso to create a new organization that will combine the opa and ieso mandates and continue the high quality work both organizations are known for find out more
A Wikipedia sign in form requesting a username and password. A password is a word or string of characters used for user authentication to prove identity or access approval to gain access to a resource (example: an access code is a type of password), which is to be kept secret from those not allowed access. The use of passwords is known to be ancient.
The password itself is not stored in AD in decryptable form. As I understand it what is stored is a hash of the password and the date/time when the password was set. When a user logging on enters the password that value and the date/time when the password was last set are used to re-calculate the stored hash. if this is the same as the stored hash, the assumption is that the user entered a valid password.