Re: security event id 628 logged as 642

From: Eric Fitzgerald [MSFT] (ericf@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/01/03


From: "Eric Fitzgerald [MSFT]" <ericf@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:27:05 -0800


No, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. Can you give me any more
information about your environment?

-- 
Eric Fitzgerald
Program Manager, Windows Auditing and Intrusion Detection
Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"jon" <jgibson@sfcf.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2b8601c2ef98$4183a850$3001280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for looking at this Eric - have you come up with
> anything at all?
>
> regards
>
> Jon
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >In Windows 2000, we deprecated events 626 and 629, but
> 627 and 628 have
> >always been in place.
> >
> >You are correct, you should expect event 628 when you set
> the user's
> >password without knowledge of the old password.  I will
> attempt to reproduce
> >the problem here.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Eric
> >
> >-- 
> >Eric Fitzgerald
> >Program Manager, Windows Auditing and Intrusion Detection
> >Microsoft Corporation
> >
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> >
> >"Jon" <jgibson@sfcf.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:05ba01c2e992$7731e1d0$3001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have set up server to audit account management.
> >>
> >> When I set a user's password using computer management I
> >> get event id 642 (User Account Changed) logged in the
> >> security event log.  My understanding is that it should
> >> actually be event id 628 (User Account password set).
> >>
> >> A similar problem is logged for Windows NT Server 4.0 on
> >> the microsoft kb
> >> (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-
> us%
> >> 3B173059) but I can't find any reference to this problem
> >> occurring under Windows 2000.
> >>
> >> I would like to resolve this to allow auditing of
> >> administrator user password changes - 642 isn't specific
> >> enough to allow this.
> >>
> >> Machine is running Windows 2000 Server SP2.
> >>
> >> Can anyone give advice or fix for this?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Jon
> >
> >
> >.
> >


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