Re: problems with a domain admin account

From: Brian Desmond (Brian@cardam.com)
Date: 05/31/02 

From: "Brian Desmond" <Brian@cardam.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:15:19 -0500

Is it possible that somebody is screwing around on the network trying to
logon as AD2? 

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Brian Desmond/469090
Brian@cardam.com
Chicago, IL USA
www.wpcp.org
"Sandra L Miller" <slm@cs.arizona.edu> wrote in message
news:3CF6A828.36EECDB0@cs.arizona.edu...
> Help please.
>
> We have a Windows domain, with 2 domain controllers running Windows
> 2000, and 200+ workstations running mostly Windows 2000 (one NT and
> some XPs).  As per Microsoft's recommendation, we changed the name
> of the original Administrator account to something else (call it ad1)
> and rarely use the account.  We created a second administrator account
> (call it ad2) which we use daily for administration.  We have always
> changed the password for ad2 monthly.
>
> The problem...
> Recently, we have been having problems when we change the password
> for ad2.  The account becomes locked out, over and over.  I keep
> unlocking it, using the ad1 account, but after 15-20 minutes, it is
> locked out again.  We don't have a policy in place to lock out accounts
> after x number of failed login attempts, so I don't THINK that's the
> problem.  Does anybody have any ideas?  My boss is getting annoyed at
> me :-(  (he can't ever remember the password for ad1).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
> Sandra L Miller
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Arizona

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