Re: [WinMac] Mac passwords

Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac passwords
From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 09:13:56 EDT

This sounds specific to Exchange Server and clients. Will it work with
just a plain NT Server (domain environment) with SFM?

> Warwick Tate wrote:
>
> 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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