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Article #16Re: How do I stop "Your Password Expires in 14 days..."
From: Pete R
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:00
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On Tue, 12 May 1998 19:32:53 -0400, "Indros" <indr0s@hacking.com> wrote: >It may be coming from your box, or the NT server. If the case is that it is >coming form your box, you can change it. >First go to >Start-->Programs-->Administrative Tools (Common) --> User Manager. >This will open user manager. >the click on Policies on the Menu bar, then click on Account Policy.This >will allow you to set the options for the passwords . > >If it's not in there, it will probably be a domain thing, in which case you >will have to have a domain administrator do. They probably won't do it for >you though. It's bad security practice. > >mbbu95@dial.pipex.com wrote in message ><35581151.5137387@news.dial.pipex.com>... >>I keep getting a message at logon on Windows NT4 Workstations stating >>(correctly) that users passwords will expire in 14 (13,12,11etc) days. >>Can I change the setting to 5 days or something as it's getting >>annoying. >> Thanks, but I didn't describe very well what I was after: It's not that I don't want my password to expire every 30 days or so, it's just the warning message that keeps coming up saying 'Your password expires in 14 days - do you want to change it?' - I only want this to appear in the last 3-5 days. But i still want my password to expire every 30 days. I have domain admin access so I can look at stuff both on the server and workstations. Thanks for your help, Pete mbbu95@dial.pipex.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb96d,3ff2028f2245dec X-Google-Attributes: gidfb96d,public X-Google-Thread: 164d6f,3ff2028f2245dec X-Google-Attributes: gid164d6f,public X-Google-Thread: 12ebff,3ff2028f2245dec X-Google-Attributes: gid12ebff,public X-Google-Thread: 10be66,3ff2028f2245dec X-Google-Attributes: gid10be66,public From: mbbu95@dial.pipex.com (Pete R) Subject: Re: How do I stop "Your Password Expires in 14 days..." Date: 1998/05/14 Message-ID: <35596d61.9810747@news.dial.pipex.com> X-Deja-AN: 353147464 References: <35581151.5137387@news.dial.pipex.com> <6jam8t$517$1@winter.news.erols.com> Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom) Newsgroups: cis.winnt.admin-security,cis.winnt.general,microsoft.windowsnt.domain,microsoft.windowsnt.setup