RE: active directory password policy

From: Renouf, Phil (Phil.Renouf_at_tdsecurities.com)
Date: 02/07/05

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    There are a few viable options here. Many VPN client applications will
    let you run the client as a service so that it can be started up prior
    to the user logging onto their desktop such that when they log onto
    their desktop they are prompted for their password expiring in X days.
    This is a very good way to handle this issue with remote users.

    Also, if you are using Citrix for Extranet access then Citrix will
    prompt users for their password expiring. This is a handy by-product of
    using the Citrix Extranet client.

    Phil

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Matthew Jenkins [mailto:Matthew.Jenkins@tmctechnologies.com]
    Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:14 PM
    To: William Stegman; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: active directory password policy

    We have currently not found a good solution for this either.

    We are using the iisadmpwd that comes with Exchange to allow offsite
    users to set their passwords. I have read that this utility is
    insecure. The use of this utility is restricted to valid accounts on an
    SSL enabled site. This was a better solution that giving passwords over
    the phone, or even worse, someone e-mailing the password (it ceases to
    amaze me that people do these things).

    Matt

    Matthew Jenkins
    Senior Network Specialist
    TMC Technologies, Inc.
    304.368.1862 ext 26
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    at www.tmctechnologies.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: William Stegman [mailto:stegmanw@comcast.net]
    Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:10 PM
    To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: active directory password policy

    Does anyone have any experience with remote users who do not login to
    the domain on a regular basis or at all, and have a password expiration
    policy in effect? We can't seem to come up with a good plan to handle
    these users. They only occassionally access domain resources such as
    webmail via the Internet or an internal website to do timesheets via
    vpn, and will not have the luxury of logging on to a machine connected
    to our LAN and getting the warning about soon to expire passwords. If
    our policy dictates passwords expire every 90 days, how can we avoid the

    inevitable calls regarding password resets?

    thx

    /William Stegman - Network Administrator///

    TransCore - Hummelstownd

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