Force Strong Passwords for a single Group

From: Alex Acetozi (askme@email.com)
Date: 04/10/03


From: "Alex Acetozi" <askme@email.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 05:29:20 -0700


Apllying Group Policies.

If you need to aplly a policy to a single machine which is
not member of a Domain, you will use the Local Group
Policy under Administrative tools. There you have many
option for securing passwords for example, password
lenght, expiration, lockouts, history password etc...

Goos Luck,
Alex Acetozi
MCP,MCSA,CCNA

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, would anyone know a way of enforcing strong passwords
for a single WIN2K
>security group without the use of 3rd party software? I
would like to
>enforce the use of strong passwords only for users with
remote access
>rights.
>
>Thanks,
>Bilbo.
>
>
>.
>



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