passwords

[Cered]

Hello All,

Does anyone have any ideas about setting passwords to expire in 30 days? How and or where, is this set up on a Windows 2000 Professional Server?

Thanks

 

[Shift838]

Local policy..account settings.

 

[dholbrook]

Setting passwords to expire in 30 days should also be used with all the other criteria that stops users from cycling through several passwords back to their original one. Be sure that the system remembers sereral old passwords and bans their re-use, make sure the password length is 8 or more, make the user log on to change the passwords, lock out after too many wrong tries (3-5) in given amount of time, etc. Other wise the smart users will quickly learn they can log on, chang the password, then change it again back to the old one and the whole purpose is defeated.

HTH

David

 

[GlenJohnson]

Make sure you give the users help in how to create a good password. I wrote an article showing that Igd6B@n is a great password and easy to remember. I go drink 6 Beers at night. Create a sentence that you can relate to, and then make it a password. M1DiaDP. My one Dog is a Doberman Pincher. Easy once you know the trick. A friend who is an admin for another company created a password policy that was a nightmare, and he didn't train his people. Got a lot of grief. Good luck. (I don't drink 6 beers at night by the way.)

Glen A. Johnson
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