Re: Policy enforcement- Admin accounts

["Paul J. Brickett" <swarzkopf () legolas sinnerz us>]

> Also remember the actual Administrator
> account CANNOT be locked out.

Absolutely NOT true. I really wish this myth would die.

In a Server 2003 functional level domain you can configure the 
domain\Administrator account to lockout via configuring the correct 
options in ADSIedit.

In earlier functional levels you can use the "passprop.exe" utility from 
the MS resource kit to configure the domain\Administrator account to comply
with your domain lockout policy. Passprop works with Server 2K3 as well.


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Charles Hardin wrote:

> Sadly with AD you can only have one account security policy per
> domain. You would need to make a second domain in your forest and move
> your admin accounts there. Also remember the actual Administrator
> account CANNOT be locked out.
>
> On Dec 15, 2007 11:32 AM, WALI <hkhasgiwale () gmail com> wrote:
> > In an active directory environment (windows 2003), I want to ensure lockout
> > for administrator accounts also, in order to protect against attempts to
> > brute force account password. The flipside is, we might have a DoS situation
> > but I can live with it. Is there a tool I can deploy to ensure that admin
> > account also locks out after certain no. of attemps?
> >
> > Also, ONLY for admin accounts, I want to enforce certain settings like:
> > Password should contain atleast 15 characters, should not contain a
> > dictionary word etc.
> > My normal password policy for AD user accounts, set at the domain level is a
> > minimum of 8 chars but I want to deploy this special policy of 15 chars
> > minimum for admin accounts.
> >
> > How should I go about this?