Admin account continuously locked out

[sierrapacific]

I unlock Admin, and then 30 secs or less later its locked again. I've reset the password, no luck. What else can I do? Sometimes, almost all the user accounts get locked out for no reason. We just recently switched from a dedicated 56K line to T1 and have updated all of our DNS records because our outside IP addresses changed. Could this be a DNS issue?

 

[itsp1965]

Do you happen to have a service or a sched job running that logs on as the administrator. It coulde be possible that it has the incorrect password that is causing you problems.

 

[sierrapacific]

Unplugged router, reset admin password, all was fine for 5 minutes. Plugged router back in, admin account locked out instantly. Any ideas?

 

[markdmac]

Sounds to me like you have a VPN session that is trying to connect automatically and is providing an old password. Or possibly you have a machine logged in somewhere that uses the admin account and it is logged in with an old password.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[petrosky]

Hi,

Any chance you the admin account might be getting attacked from outside?

What firewalling is in place?
Are you running AV?

Remember- It's nice to be important,
but it's important to be nice

 

[sierrapacific]

Putting a firewall in place today. Should take care of the problem.

 

[adcfaq]

what;s ur account lock policy, it might be too restrict.

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