Re: Creating Local User Violating Group Password Policy

From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchell_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:13:46 -0700

"=?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQ=?=" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> said

> Is there anyway to create a local user whose password would not adhere
> to the Domain Group Password Polcy set?
>

No.

> We have been using local accounts for IIS security. We are in the
> process of porting our sites to new 2003 servers and wanted the process
> to be transparent to the users. In the meanwhile, we have a Corporate
> level Password Policy set for our Domain that did not exist in the
> past... The problem is we can not create local users with their legacy
> passwords, because they do not adhere to the new Group Policy.
>
> Anyway around it?

Why not just make the IIS server a member server of the domain and let the DC
authenticate users on the web server?

Quantcast