How to enable end-user can change their password on windows2000 & XP?

[Leo Zhang]

How to enable end-user can change their password on windows2000 & XP?

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Leo,

Sorry for the silly question: can they not simply enter 'ctrl-alt-del' to
do this? The Change Password... is one of the six options, normally! Or is
that greyed out?

Now, is it possible that if you open up the ADUC and then open up a user
account object and go to the Account Tab that the "User can not change
password" checkbox is indeed checked? If this is the case then it would be
simply ( well, normally ) a matter of unchecking that check box.

There is also a GPO that an Admin can create whereby the users are not
allowed to change their password until the Operating System requests that
they do this ( at the maximum Password Age in your password policy ).
Please see this MSKB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=309799


HTH,

Cary

 

[Guest]

If, however, these machines are not members of a domain the ctrl+alt+del
option isn't available. In which case they should use the User accounts
control panel snap in.

Although, we assume these are domain members as this is the Active Directory
forum ;-)


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Paul Williams

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[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Paul,

Yes. There I go again - assuming.

Cary

If, however, these machines are not members of a domain the ctrl+alt+del
option isn't available. In which case they should use the User accounts
control panel snap in.

Although, we assume these are domain members as this is the Active Directory
forum ;-)


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Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/

 

[ptwilliams]

Nothing wrong with that!!! This is, after all, dedicated to AD...

Although some do assume this is for anything at all... :-(

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Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net
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Paul,

Yes. There I go again - assuming.

Cary