Re: Service Account Passwords

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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    The service has to the changing. For IUSR for instance the IIS service manages
    the password, you can actually turn that capability off if you want and people
    do do it if they have multiple instances of IIS on different machines running
    under the same ID. If it changed in that case, only one instance would work.
    Also note that IIS actually doesn't run as IUSR, it launches specific processes
    as ISUR or others as necessary. Normally it runs as one of the non-userid
    security contexts like localsystem.

    You also mention the kerberos account. The KDC runs as localsystem as well. The
    krbtgt ID is used by the KDC service but is never logged into. The password is
    never changed and in fact the account is disabled. 

    --
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net
J Burford Fields wrote:
> Are service account passwords managed and changed automatically like
> IUSR_MachineName?  Or should one change their passwords periodically?
> I'm thinking the former, but do not recall seeing it in writing.
> 
> tia
>
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