Re: Locked Accounts

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 03/28/03

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    From: chris@nospam.com
    Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:52:10 -0800
    
    

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:03:15 -0800, "Jlmc" <NA@NoSpam.com> wrote:

    >I am having a problem once in awhile all my Accounts have been locked out. I
    >have it set in the policy to keep accounts lock till the administrator
    >unlocks. Why is it all the accounts are being locked instead just the
    >offending user, or is there another reason all the accounts have been
    >locked? Primary and Backup domain controllers are NT 4.0 with SP 6

    Check the audit log to see where the bad logon attempts are coming
    from. Perhaps someone is running a password dictionary and trying to
    breakin. Do you have an unprotected network connection or webserver?

    -Chris


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