Re: Account Lockout Duration

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:29:52 -0500

If these are domain accounts, did you look to make sure the policy took
effect on every domain controller?

If these are local accounts, check the group policy on the local machine to
see whether the policy took effect.

"MikeD" <dodes1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:075101c2c259$b8870710$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04...
> We implemented a account lockout policy. Due to a number
> of attacks, we removed it because everyone was getting
> locked out.
> Since then, people continue to get locked-out even though
> the policy is no longer in place.
> I've done secedit 2 days ago, but the issues continue.
>
> Any ideas on where teh info is being cached? 

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