Re: Flushing Cache Credentials

From: Kevin Thowesten (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/23/03 

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:27:13 -0700

I did know of that registry key however I did not want to
do that. Under the certain circumstances I do not want to
delete everyone's cached credentials which in turn is
what would happen. I only want to remove 1 specific users
cached credentials.

Thanks

>-----Original Message-----
>Kevin Thorwesten wrote:
>
>> How would I flush cached credentials in a Windows XP,
NT
>> 4.0 domain environment?
>>
>> Things I have tried: removing the users local profile.
>> And I've seen a couple of posts that the credentials
are
>> stored in HKLM/Security, however I have nothing there.
I
>> have also seen that they are in
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Eapol\UserEapInfo
>> however I do not have the Eapol entry.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Hi
>
>Create/edit this in registry, reboot and see if it works:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current
Version\Winlogon\
>
>ValueName: CachedLogonsCount
>Data Type: REG_SZ
>Value: 0
>
>
>If you want to enable logon with cached credentials
again, change it to a
>number between 1 and 50 (10 is the default value). The
number represents how
>many users the computer will remember cached credentials
for.
>
>
>--
>torgeir
>Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version
of the 1328 page
>Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter
>
>
>.
>

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