Re: Locking out expired users ?

From: RCC (rcc76@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/03/02 

From: "RCC" <rcc76@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:51:14 +1300

"Povl H. Pedersen" <pope@my.terminal.dk> wrote in message
news:cc6cf183.0212030236.52675ce2@posting.google.com...
> Is there any way I can automatically lock out users with expired
> passwords ?
>
> Currently I have the problem, that we create some users that are never
> used, and we have other users that becomes inactive. After the
> password expiry period of x days, the users can still log in with
> their old password.
>
> We want to inactivate the users so that they will have to contact the
> help desk to get ulocked again.
>
> We can do this in Lotus Notes, on unix, and I can see Novell supports
> it as well. But I have yet to find it in Windows.
>
> A NT 5 solution prefered, but since we are moving to AD at some point
> after .NET Server is out, an explanation on how to make it work there
> would also be OK.

I thought once the password expires, the user will not be able to log on
anyway. What service pack are you running on the W2K machines?

Regards,
RCC

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