Re: Account Lockout Policy

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:18:45 -0500

You can't do it with 3rd party either. These are domain wide settings that
affect ALL user accounts. A service account is a still a user account. Your
only choice is to have another domain that does not have a lockout policy. 

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www.joeware.net
"Clarence" <raven_2517@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O4%23Uwzc5DHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> So basically Win2k gives no advantage for domain-wide account settings
over
> NT4. As far as understanding group policy, I do, I'm simply asking for a
way
> to circumvent the design...but apparently no seems to have my scenario of
> even attempted without using a 3rd party application.
>
> "Paul Adare" <padare@newsguy.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1a806b51a8f96046989823@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > In article <MPG.1a806a473e0e6927989822@msnews.microsoft.com>, in the
> > microsoft.public.win2000.security news group, Paul Adare
> > <padare@newsguy.com> says...
> >
> > > Although account and password policy _affect_ user and computer
> > > accounts, the GPO that contains the policy is _processed_ by computers
> > > (which is why these policies exist in the Computer Configuration
portion
> > > of a GPO).
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, small correction, should read "Although account and password
> > policy _affect_ user accounts..."
> > -- 
> > Paul Adare
> > Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
> > H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
>
>

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