Changing Passwords

[Guest]

I was wondering what is preventing me from changing my passwords. There are the usual constraints in place, (min 7, 3 of 4 char groups, etc), but it only seems to allow changing passwords after a certain duration after the last password change. For example, the password was "john12K", it was changed to "john13K", then tried to change to "defCon13" - failed. The next day, password (was "john13K") was changed to "defCon13", then tried to change to "conDef31" - failed. Can someone tell me if (apart from all the other constraints) there is a time limit to password changes (1/hour or something)? What else could it be if not that? How can I change it so that users can change passwords anytime they want? (Someusers send me 5-10 emails a day about that

I should point out that all the passwords used were not in the password history list, and the changing of passwords was not only done via Windows 2000 Server Change Password but also through developed code. (We are writing some web parts to change password and wondered why it would only work once) I have also not fine-tuned the time duration and these tests were performed once each day for a couple of days (when I get fed-up with it I move on).

 

[Dmitry Korolyov [MVP]]

There is a setting in password policy called mimimum password age. And it
seems to prevent your users from changing passwords. It is initially
designed to not allow users playing around the password history policy by
changing their passwords multiple times in a row, keeping their old password
after the change, effectively.

 

[Guest]

Thanx, that's been driving me crazy for ages.