RE: [WinMac] Mac passwords

Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac passwords
From: Warwick Tate (Warwick.Tate[at]optus.com.au)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 19:53:54 EDT

Unfortunately, PEWA is Exchange specific. However, try
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/3/74.ASP for a way to
get a list of users and password expiration dates. How you post-process the
list and send notifications in your favorite mail system is up to you.

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: tomroth@wfubmc.edu
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 23:13 PM
> To: winmac@iffy.com
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac passwords
>
>
> 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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> 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
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