Programmatically validate passwords against password filter/policy

From: Daniel Creeron (daniel.creeron_at_fmr.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:24:11 GMT

Hi Everyone.

Is there a way to programmatically (pre-)validate a users password against
the current password filter/policies? We're in a Windows Server 2000/2003
environment with Active Directory.

We have a web-based application that allows resetting/synching multiple
passwords. If the user wants their NT/AD account reset then we'd like to
pre-qualify the new password against the existing filter/policies. Ideally
getting a 'true' or 'false' return.

Once we validate the new password the request would continue downstream to
the rest of our process.

I've done a lot of 'googling' and only found articles related to
implementing your own PassFilt.dll. I just want to use whatever is
currently in place, not write my own.

Thanks in advance. 

-- 
Daniel Creeron

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