Administrator accounts locked

From: aaron (alklink@Frag.bellsouth.net)
Date: 03/04/03 

From: "aaron" <alklink@Frag.bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:14:53 -0800

Have you changed your passwords recently? If you have
services set to run under those accounts, they might have
a stale password, thus locking the account.

to reply de-Frag
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>Twice in the last few weeks, our Administrator account
and
>accounts with Administrator rights have, for lack of a
>better description, locked themselves out. It happens at
>almost exactly the same time and it doesn't appear to be
>anything we're doing. It's not a good thing. Anyone
have
>any ideas what may be causing it. Thanks.
>(We're running a typical 2000 server-client network -
>nothing special.)
>
>
>.
>

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