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Arcadeia.com
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Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:
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Hello,
I have two questions,
How do I remove strong passwords from windows 2003?
(i.e. users logging on do not have to have something like abc123ABC!@#
etc, etc)
How do I make it so people cannot lock out their accout?
(by default after 3 times it needs to be rest)
thanks
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Notan
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Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:
Re: strong passwords |
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"Arcadeia.com" wrote:
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Hello,
I have two questions,
How do I remove strong passwords from windows 2003?
(i.e. users logging on do not have to have something like abc123ABC!@#
etc, etc)
How do I make it so people cannot lock out their accout?
(by default after 3 times it needs to be rest)
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Are you an Administrator?
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Steven L Umbach
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Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:41 am Post subject:
Re: strong passwords |
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You would have to make sure that you set password complexity to DISABLED in
Domain Security Policy under account policies/password policies. Account
lockout settings are in the category for account lockout policy under
account policies and you set the account lockout threshold to zero to
disable account lockouts.
Having said that I would strongly discourage disabling password complexity
but instead train/inform users on what the password requirements are. By far
the biggest threat to a network is users [including administrators] using
weak or no passwords. -- Steve
"Arcadeia.com" <holdsd96@mail.buffalostate.edu> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hello,
I have two questions,
How do I remove strong passwords from windows 2003?
(i.e. users logging on do not have to have something like abc123ABC!@#
etc, etc)
How do I make it so people cannot lock out their accout?
(by default after 3 times it needs to be rest)
thanks
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Arcadeia.com
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Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:
Re/3 strong passwords |
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Whops,
Just had to refresh the policy.
Got it to work. Thanks.
While were on the subject, is there a way just to select certain users
to not have strong passwords?
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Arcadeia.com
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Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:
Re/2 strong passwords |
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Steven L Umbach wrote:
| Quote: | You would have to make sure that you set password complexity to DISABLED in
Domain Security Policy under account policies/password policies. Account
lockout settings are in the category for account lockout policy under
account policies and you set the account lockout threshold to zero to
disable account lockouts.
Having said that I would strongly discourage disabling password complexity
but instead train/inform users on what the password requirements are. By far
the biggest threat to a network is users [including administrators] using
weak or no passwords. -- Steve
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Hey Steve,
Yeah, I know what you’re talking about with the password thing, but when
the boss tells me she doesn’t want “crazy symbols” in her password, and
asks me to remove that feature.. I just do what I’m told.
Anyway I tried what you said, and got this error when trying to make a
new account (wanted to make sure it would work before I told her it was
fixed)
Start error—
Windows cannot set the password for [user name here] because:
The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the
minimum passwords length, password complexity and password history
requirements.
End error—
The password I tried to use for this account was “abc123”
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Steven L Umbach
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Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Re/3 strong passwords |
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OK. Glad to hear you got it working the way you want though I would try to
explain to dumb boss that passwords are really weakened now which is will
make it MUCH more likely that your computers be compromised with a
worm/trojan or hacked if that would be a concern and guess who the blame
would be put on? Your boss? I don't think so. I don't know if your boss has
a boss you can talk to and I understand work politics can be a hassle but
gee is it really that hard to include a punctuation mark in a password? Can
I say WHINER??
No there is no built in way to have different password policy within a
domain for domain users. I don't know how big your network is or budget but
many organizations are using smart cards for sensitive user accounts.
Certain users can be advised to use passwords of certain length and
complexity but most [even a lot of admins] will conform to minimum
requirements unfortunately. --- Steve
"Arcadeia.com" <holdsd96@mail.buffalostate.edu> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Whops,
Just had to refresh the policy.
Got it to work. Thanks.
While were on the subject, is there a way just to select certain users to
not have strong passwords?
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