Re: Account policy (password)

Yes the password will expire immediately. That does not mean that a user
that is already logged on will be logged off but he could have trouble
accessing domain resources. There is a neat free tool called Dumpsec from
SomarSoft and I believe you can dump user accounts to a table and among many
other things see things like password age. --- Steve

http://www.somarsoft.com/ --- Dumpsec

"MP" <MP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E26727A0-F104-42E5-A49F-2FE852693266@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks, that's what I thought. On the password age setting am I correct in
> thinking that once that is applied, a password will expire immediately if
> it
> has not been changed in X days, where X is the period set in the policy
> (regardless of the "password never expires" setting that was previously
> checked, but now unchecked)?
>
> "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
>
>> ALWAYS best to ask. The change will not occur until the user needs to
>> change
>> his password. However if you are implementing maximum password age at
>> the
>> same time in your new configuration you may find that many users will
>> have
>> their passwords expire right away. Either way be sure to educate your
>> users
>> on new requirement with specific examples of what will or will not work
>> or
>> you will have a major support headache. --- Steve
>>
>>
>> "MP" <MP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:F961D471-6781-4C81-AB1F-8A5131C149E1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > When applying an account policy domain wide for minimum password length
>> > or
>> > complexity, would it affect users next time they log in, or only next
>> > time
>> > they change their password?
>> >
>> > Example: User1 has a 3 character password, I enforce policy minimum
>> > length
>> > 6
>> > characters. What happens when they try to login tomorrow?
>> >
>> > Sorry if this seems obvious but I'm trying to avoid undesirable
>> > affects..
>>
>>
>>


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