Re: User Accounts Keep Locking Out
From: Ricky Wilson (webmastarik@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/30/03
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From: webmastarik@yahoo.com (Ricky Wilson) Date: 30 Jan 2003 12:12:26 -0800
You say all accounts, do you mean literally "all" of them? I had a
similiar issue with several users and it turned out to be a couple of
things.
1) If a user is logged onto multiple machines and their password
expires and they change it from one workstation while still logged
into the others (eg. Logged into station @ work then changes password
from home via VPN/Terminal Services, etc) that workstation will
attempt to renew it's account using the local logged in username and
password locking the account because it was using the old password.
Once the offending PC is logged out then it stops using the old PW.
Check to make sure users aren't logged into other machines when they
change their password to avoid this.
2) Users will use Outlook Express at home using POP3 or whatever and
have it set to remember their password. When they change it they
forget to change it in Outlook (or Express) and it locks their account
by attempting to check mail every few minutes.
Normally, if there isn't someone trying to guess a password it is one
of these two things or something similar (such as a service running
under the users account using an old PW). Check for this and similiar
situations and ou'll probably figure out the culprit.
Ricky
john@mousehut.com (John) wrote in message news:<c160e0ea.0301231433.5f023882@posting.google.com>...
> Hey All:
>
> Running a Win2k Web Server and am having a problem with all user
> accounts being locked out every few weeks or so except the original
> admin account (which was renamed).
>
> I am guessing there is some tool out there that can read the user
> accounts on a machine and then is automatically trying to crack the
> passwords. Of course, the machine is set to lock people out after 3
> bad attempts so that's not getting to far and we enforce tough
> passwords.
>
> So, my question is, is there any way to stop this? Can anything be
> done or do I have to live with unlocking everyones account every few
> weeks (hope not).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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