Re: How to make Windows require two passwords for the Administrator?

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 03/26/02


From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:10:04 GMT

In article <x78z8feapl.fsf@janus.cryp.to>, Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>
wrote:
>I hope you can help me: Is there any way how I can make a Windows
>machine require two separate passwords for the "Administrator" login?
>The rationale behind that idea is that we would like to enforce a
>four-eyes policy for our servers. I'd appreciate any feedback!

You could simply require the password to have two parts, and have one admin
type the first few letters, and the other type the second.

Alun.
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