Re: Windows 2000 user login

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger () mac com>]

Wright, Bill wrote:
> I have never posted to this board, so hopefully I'm following the right procedures.

Mostly.  :-)  (Hitting return every 75 characters or so is preferred.)

> My issue is that a user's account keeps getting locked out due to an
> aggressive password policy (30 days) and he claims that he isn't logged
> into multiple machines nor is he fat fingering his password.  Is anybody
> aware of a product to find out where or how many Windows 2000 servers or
> workstations a user is logged into? My thinking is that he's logged into
> multiple machines under an old password that keeps locking him out.

Event viewer on the domain controller should provide detailed records of 
authentication failures (including from which machine), so you shouldn't 
have any problem answering your question.

A 30-day reusable password policy strikes me as silly.  Why not switch 
to OPIE, S/Key, biometrics, or some other strong form of authentication? 
 It'd very probably be easier on your users...

--
-Chuck


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