local adminstrative account passwords

October 27, 2008

Hi,

We are requiring all adminstrative accounts to have expiring

passwords. Is there a tool or script that I can run that will force

all local administrative accounts passwords to reset or expire? All

machines are windows.

Thanks

Mitch

October 27, 2008

Re: local adminstrative account passwords

Mitch,

if your systems are members of an Active Directory domain, you can apply

password policy (that would dictate password age) via Group Policy, but as

long as the password is set not to expire for individual user accounts, that

setting will take the precedence. If this does not meet your requirements,

you might want to consider running on a scheduled basis a script that would

modify pwdLastSet and PasswordExpired attributes of domain and local user

accounts - as described in

hth

Marcin

"wuzzle" <wuzzle1@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

>

> We are requiring all adminstrative accounts to have expiring

> passwords. Is there a tool or script that I can run that will force

> all local administrative accounts passwords to reset or expire? All

> machines are windows.

>

> Thanks

> Mitch

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