Re: Account getting locked out - Need to find out by whom!

From: Ben Smith [MS] (bensmi@microsoft.com)
Date: 08/09/02


From: Ben Smith [MS] <bensmi@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:53:03 -0700


In article <eb25Qa7PCHA.1936@tkmsftngp08>, NTNEWS
(thanksalot@sc.rr.com) writes...
> We have a password policy that locks accounts out after 5 bad password
> attempts. It than resets it after 5 minutes. We have auditing turned on
> for everything. We have one account that continuously gets locked out. We
> unluck it and within minutes it gets locked again. We have a native mode
> Win2k domain. I have looked on all the Domain controllers for event ID 539
> which should be "Account locked out".
>
> What are the best steps to zero in on finding out where an account is
> getting locked out from??
>
> thanksalot@sc.rr.com
>
>
>
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>

Enable Account Logon failure auditing on all DCs.

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