local password policy - vista home

[Sage - John Leonard]

How do I setup or change a Local Password Policy, using vista Home?

 

[Malke]

How do I setup or change a Local Password Policy, using vista Home?

Since you don't have gpedit in Vista Home:

Start Orb>Search box>cmd
When cmd appears in Results above, right-click and choose "Run as
administrator"

Stop the Password Expiration - at the command prompt type:

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited [enter]

You will get a message box: “The command completed successfully” and then
you can close the command prompt.

To change the Password Expiration Date:

At an elevated command prompt (as above), type:

net accounts /maxpwage1 - 999) [enter]

Here (1- 999) is the range for the number of days. Ex. - to set password
expiration to 50 days, type net accounts /maxpwage:50. Close the command
prompt window when you get “The command completed successfully” message.

Malke

 

[Sage - John Leonard]

Thx

I found that and did it.

How do I setup or change a Local Password Policy, using vista Home?

Since you don't have gpedit in Vista Home:

Start Orb>Search box>cmd
When cmd appears in Results above, right-click and choose "Run as
administrator"

Stop the Password Expiration - at the command prompt type:

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited [enter]

You will get a message box: “The command completed successfully” and then
you can close the command prompt.

To change the Password Expiration Date:

At an elevated command prompt (as above), type:

net accounts /maxpwage1 - 999) [enter]

Here (1- 999) is the range for the number of days. Ex. - to set password
expiration to 50 days, type net accounts /maxpwage:50. Close the command
prompt window when you get “The command completed successfully” message.

Malke