Password change on a date - sbs2000

Hi,

How can I enforce a group of users (all the users actually) to change
their passwords *by* a particular date?

(I presume account expiry is just that - expires the *account* (not the
password)). ??

--
Duncan

Jeff
Fri Jan 21 18:36:02 CST 2005

To my knowledge, there's no simple way to cause all accounts in a group to
reset a password on a particular date with warning in advance. You could
trigger a "must change password at next logon" and set it to occur on a
particular future date, but that wouldn't provide warning.


"Duncan McC" <hard@work.ok> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c59a0ffad8bd8db98977c@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> How can I enforce a group of users (all the users actually) to change
> their passwords *by* a particular date?
>
> (I presume account expiry is just that - expires the *account* (not the
> password)). ??
>
> --
> Duncan

Duncan
Wed Jan 26 17:34:43 CST 2005

In article <eoN$apBAFHA.3700@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
jeff@cfisolutions.com says...
> To my knowledge, there's no simple way to cause all accounts in a group to
> reset a password on a particular date with warning in advance. You could
> trigger a "must change password at next logon" and set it to occur on a
> particular future date, but that wouldn't provide warning.

Hey that sounds OK Jeff - thanks man. How exactly, do I go about that
(set the future date bit)?

The warning's quite simple - just gonna email 'em all - "please suss out
a new password".

A problem arises if someone manually changes their p.word, and then gets
hammered again on "the date" to do the same (I'd like to avoid that).

I'm thinking about a scripting solution now :)


--
Duncan

>
>
> "Duncan McC" <hard@work.ok> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1c59a0ffad8bd8db98977c@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I enforce a group of users (all the users actually) to change
> > their passwords *by* a particular date?
> >
> > (I presume account expiry is just that - expires the *account* (not the
> > password)). ??
> >
> > --
> > Duncan
>
>
>

Jeff
Wed Jan 26 19:42:18 CST 2005

I originally had in mind that I would be able to paste in a VBscript to
illustrate that, but when I started looking around, I didn't find one ready
to run, just coding examples.

I think there is one in the MS scripting repository, but I didn't find it at
a glance. Seems to me there is a reskit tool for this too, and that the
idea is to use scheduler to run the command you want.

I'll have to probably write something that makes sense, and then explain the
limitations. That's the problem with password changes, MS didn't make it
very flexible or sensible.


"Duncan McC" <hard@work.ok> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c62f0415594e3b989783@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <eoN$apBAFHA.3700@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
> jeff@cfisolutions.com says...
> > To my knowledge, there's no simple way to cause all accounts in a group
to
> > reset a password on a particular date with warning in advance. You could
> > trigger a "must change password at next logon" and set it to occur on a
> > particular future date, but that wouldn't provide warning.
>
> Hey that sounds OK Jeff - thanks man. How exactly, do I go about that
> (set the future date bit)?
>
> The warning's quite simple - just gonna email 'em all - "please suss out
> a new password".
>
> A problem arises if someone manually changes their p.word, and then gets
> hammered again on "the date" to do the same (I'd like to avoid that).
>
> I'm thinking about a scripting solution now :)
>
>
> --
> Duncan
>
> >
> >
> > "Duncan McC" <hard@work.ok> wrote in message
> > news:MPG.1c59a0ffad8bd8db98977c@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How can I enforce a group of users (all the users actually) to change
> > > their passwords *by* a particular date?
> > >
> > > (I presume account expiry is just that - expires the *account* (not
the
> > > password)). ??
> > >
> > > --
> > > Duncan
> >
> >
> >