Password duration problem of operating system

Asked By paul_bd5 0 points N/A Posted on - 09/11/2011

While setting up the administrative access control of my operating system, I have found minimum password age as 1 day, but I need to alter passwords twice or thrice a day. Need proper suggestion from any expert to make such change on administrative level

 

 

Policy	Policy setting
Enforced password history	24 password remembered
Maximum password age	60 days
Minimum password age	1 days
Minimum password length	7 characters
Password must meet complexity requirements	Enabled
Store password using reversible encryption	Disabled

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Answered By jemjem 0 points N/A #123194

Password duration problem of operating system

If you have not already , you must enable password expiration for each user account that you want to have their password expire after the maximum password age.

Step 1. Open the Local Security Policy editor.

Step 2.  In the Left pane, expand Account Policies, and click Password Policy.

Step 3. In the right pane, double click on Maximum password age.(see screenshot above.)

Step 4. Enter how many days between 0 to 999 that you want passwords can be used before the system requires the user to change it, then click on Ok.(see the screenshot below)

Step 5. Finished.

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Answered By Patrick b 0 points N/A #123196

Password duration problem of operating system

Hello Paul.

Yours is a strange request. Why would you want to change Windows password 2 or 3 times a day? 

To me, it seems impractical and, quite honestly, if I were the user constantly being reminded to change my password, I'd be frustrated and pissed off. 

I think that is probably the reason why the minimum password lifetime was intentionally designed to have 1 day as minimum. 

You will also have to consider what happens to network shares and the current session of the user once his password expires in the middle of an important job.

Good luck on your quest to find the answers to a very challenging idea.

 

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