RE: account policies entries in Registry

From: Dale Weiss (dweiss_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/16/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:29:12 GMT

Hello,

I am not sure that I completely understand your question. Are you referring
to the policies such as length and such? Are you referring to local
policies or policies enforced from higher levels such as the OU and/or the
domain? Does this refer to Windows 2000 or XP?

Local Policies are stored in policy files (Registry.pol) files that live in
the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Group Policy directory which subdirectories that
are for the machine and the user.

Machine policies are typically written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and User
policies are typically written to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I don't know that
password policies are written there. I believe that they may be in the
Security hive and if so would be harder to get to.

The information there is normally in encoded blobs (Binary Large Objects)
that are not publicly defined. I will need to verify this.

Relevant Pages

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