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Account lockouts
Name: tenover Date: July 8, 2003 at 09:04:38 Pacific OS: W2k, SP3 CPU/Ram: 1.2/512
Comment:
I have a few (5-7) users who's accounts keep getting locked out at what seems to be random times. They'll get a message when they logon that tells them they have a certain amount of days to change it, they say "no", then the next time they try to login, their account is locked out. any ideas?
Name: Jeruvy Date: July 8, 2003 at 09:07:39 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, they need to change their passwords when prompted to or the machine will not allow them to log in.
Just tell them to change there passwords when instructed to!
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Response Number 2
Name: Brendan Date: July 8, 2003 at 10:02:39 Pacific
Reply:
Or you can change the password security policies in AD on your DC. If it is only a few users, see if they happen to be part of the same group somewhere like "software", and then check the group policies, this may be more likly if it is only a few.
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Spam.. I think??!?
