RE: Account Lockout Policy

From: Laura A. Robinson (larobins_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: 10/26/05

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:20:03 -0400
To: "'Mike MacNeill'" <mmacneil@crosscountry.com>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

Why are your service accounts getting locked out in the first place? I'd
look at fixing that rather than at trying to exclude them from your lockout
policies. Just my pennies.

Laura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike MacNeill [mailto:mmacneil@crosscountry.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 2:29 PM
> To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Account Lockout Policy
>
> IMHO I think MS screwed the implementation of these policies
> in the first place. We have a global policy where accounts
> are locked after 5 failed attempts. The issue with this is
> there are accounts that I would love to exclude from this
> policy. Accounts such as the ones used by our Voicemail
> System, Mobile Messaging Services and other applications have
> been locked out and as a result, services have been impacted.
> The way MS has the policies, they are applied at a machine
> level so I can specify machines that don't have this policy
> applied to but this defeats the purpose. Has anyone figured
> a way around this at all?
>
> Mike
>
> RAMI KHANFER wrote:
>
> >You can not configure account policy on OU; the only place where you
> >can configure account policy is at the domain level.
> >
> >Best Regards
> >Rami Khanfer
> >
> >MobileCom - IT Direction/ Infrastructure Department
> >Mobile + 962 777 801539
> >Email Rami.Khanfer@mobilecom.jo
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Derick Anderson [mailto:danderson@vikus.com]
> >Sent: Thursday/October/2005 05:59 PM
> >To: Shabbar Arsiwala; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> >Subject: RE: Account Lockout Policy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Shabbar Arsiwala [mailto:sarsiwala@obleness.org]
> >>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:07 AM
> >>To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> >>Subject: Account Lockout Policy
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> >>We have an account lockout policy setup for users on our
> domain Win
> >>2K3 / Active Directory environment. 4 invalid attempts the account
> >>locks out / 30 mins the account is released. We would like
> to change
> >>this policy for one the machines on our domain. This machine uses a
> >>local administrator account to log in.
> >>
> >>Is this possible ???
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Shabbar
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It is possible to change the *local* machine account lockout
> policy for
> >a specific machine, but not the *domain* lockout policy. To
> do this you
> >need to put your *domain* password policy in the Domain
> Controllers OU,
> >create a separate OU for this one machine, make a new policy
> with the
> >desired lockout settings, and link it to the single
> machine's OU. This
> >will only work for *local* accounts (such as MACHINE\Administrator),
> >not
> >*domain* accounts (DOMAIN\Administrator).
> >
> >Derick Anderson
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