Re: Change Administrator Password when expired

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:52:09 -0600

Does the prompt warn you that the password is about to expire or does the
prompt say it has expired and you must change it before you can logon? ---
Steve

"GSelser" <GSelser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7C442956-C0B1-4654-8592-16BAA9AA5D66@microsoft.com...
> We have a couple of stand alone systems. We have the local policies set so
> that every 60 days the users have too reset their passwords. Normally you
> set
> the administrator password to not expire, but they want us to also change
> it
> every 60 days. When it comes time we recieve the prompt to change it, but
> if
> we decide not to change it we can cancel out and go ahead and continue
> using
> the admin account with the password expired. We want to make sure it is
> changed every sixty days. we do not have the account never expires box
> checked in the admin's account policy.
> We want to make sure when the Admin password expires that it must be
> changed
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks
> Glenn

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