RE: [WinMac] Mac passwords

Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac passwords
From: Warwick Tate (Warwick.Tate[at]optus.com.au)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 21:06:15 EDT

Try http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q221/9/77.ASP. The
Password Expiration Warning Application works fine for us, and was written
by Microsoft specifically to address this issue.

Warwick Tate
IT Solution Architect
DSS Architecture Consulting Group
Compaq Computer Australia Pty Ltd
Phone +61 (2) 9342 8325
Fax +61 (2) 9342 7511
Mobile: 04111 46677
E-Mail: Warwick.Tate@compaq.com

> ----------
> From: Peters J B (Brooks) CRBE
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:43 AM
> To: 'winmac@iffy.com'
> Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac passwords
>
> Mike,
>
> Unfortunately, the Mac users receive NO notification whatsoever from NT.
> While the Win user's receive pre-expiration warnings as well as
> notification that their password has expired and that "N" grace logins or
> failed logins remain, the Mac users run through those failed logins until
> the authentication process for their UserID is locked and requires Admin
> intervention to reset the password.
>
> I've recommended that users enable an event on whatever calendar system
> they employ (MS Outlook/Exchange is corporate mail system here) so they
> will be reminded, albeit from an independent system.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Brooks Peters (301) 227-1243 (voice)
> NSWC - Carderock Division (301) 227-5930 (fax)
> Code 5600 (Bldg. 18, Rm. 127) mailto:PetersJB@nswccd.navy.mil
> 9500 MacArthur Blvd.
> West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Perbix, Michael
> > Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> > Sent: Monday, October 8, 2001 1:23 PM
> > To: 'winmac@iffy.com'
> > Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac passwords
> >
> > Does it not tell the user when they DO log in that the password is
> expired
> > and needs to be changed?
> >
> > If you tell windows to require the user to change password on next login
> it
> > does work that way. If the password is required to change, it may not
> > proactively warn them, but it should at least prompt them when it is
> expired
> > to change it. We do not enforce that here so I have not seen it happen.
> I
> > will have to look into it some more...
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > Michael Perbix
> > Telecommunications Specialist
> > Lower Merion School District
> > (610) 645-1964 - Phone
> > (610) 896-8224 - Fax
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: tomroth@wfubmc.edu
> > > Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> > > Sent: Monday, October 8, 2001 1:21 PM
> > > To: winmac@iffy.com
> > > Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac passwords
> > >
> > >
> > > No takers on this questions?
> > >
> > > > "Donovan, Harold" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Here is a repeat of a question posed a while ago. I have NT4 SP6a
> > > loaded on
> > > > a server to which I connect about 100 Macs. My problem is that when
> the
> > > Mac
> > > > users passwords expire, they get no notification. The server runs
> FSM
> > > and
> > > > PSM on top of regular NT-PC support. The last time I posted this
> > > question,
> > > > I was told that, possibly SP6a might help. I tried it but it didn't
> > > seem to
> > > > make any difference. Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Someone had once suggested that I try the Microsoft User
> Authentication
> > > Module but that didn't help me any. Our institution now has a 90
> > > mandatory password expiration rule in place and none of our Mac users
> > > are being warned. I login on a PC also so I do get the warning there
> > > but for the 100% Mac folks they just one day can't log in.
> Microsoft's
> > > whole SFM is really a sorry excuse.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tom Roth * tomroth@wfubmc.edu * tel 336.716.4493
> > > Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> > > Dept of Biomedical Communications
> > > Medical Center Blvd * Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
> > > http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/
> > >
> > >
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