How to use "Administrative Privilges" To unlock an account

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Ok, I have 3 Administrative accounts.. (Including the "Underground" account)
In GP, I have the password policy (Invalid log-on attempts) set to 2. Well,
after two invalid log-on attempts, not only is one account locked, but the
other as well. (Both are admin accounts, under the same password, but
differnt names) so... I get the message "This account has been locked due
to.... Please contact your system admin" Well, that would be me -_-, the sys
admin. OK, so I log onto the "Underground" Admin account (CTRL+ALT+DELETE
ADMINISTRATOR) and from there, what can I do to unlock thoes accounts?
(Besides going through gpedit and setting the invalid password attmpts to 0,
there must be an easier way!!!)


Contact me via:
Email: (e-mail address removed)
AIM: xXxuntuchablxxx
MSN: (e-mail address removed)
ICQ: ????
 
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"Kevin" wrote:

| Ok, I have 3 Administrative accounts.. (Including the "Underground" account)
| In GP, I have the password policy (Invalid log-on attempts) set to 2. Well,
| after two invalid log-on attempts, not only is one account locked, but the
| other as well. (Both are admin accounts, under the same password, but
| differnt names) so... I get the message "This account has been locked due
| to.... Please contact your system admin" Well, that would be me -_-, the sys
| admin. OK, so I log onto the "Underground" Admin account (CTRL+ALT+DELETE
| ADMINISTRATOR) and from there, what can I do to unlock thoes accounts?
| (Besides going through gpedit and setting the invalid password attmpts to 0,
| there must be an easier way!!!)
|
|
| Contact me via:
| Email: (e-mail address removed)
| AIM: xXxuntuchablxxx
| MSN: (e-mail address removed)
| ICQ: ????
|


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Kevin said:
Ok, I have 3 Administrative accounts.. (Including the "Underground"
account)
In GP, I have the password policy (Invalid log-on attempts) set to 2.
Well,
after two invalid log-on attempts, not only is one account locked, but the
other as well. (Both are admin accounts, under the same password, but
differnt names) so... I get the message "This account has been locked due
to.... Please contact your system admin" Well, that would be me -_-, the
sys
admin. OK, so I log onto the "Underground" Admin account (CTRL+ALT+DELETE
ADMINISTRATOR) and from there, what can I do to unlock thoes accounts?
(Besides going through gpedit and setting the invalid password attmpts to
0,
there must be an easier way!!!)


Contact me via:
Email: (e-mail address removed)
AIM: xXxuntuchablxxx
MSN: (e-mail address removed)
ICQ: ????
Click to expand...

Log on with an account that has admin rights, then Start--> Run -->
COMPMGMT.MSC, go to Local Users and Groups, find the user and double-click
it. Checkbox to unlock is there.

Setting it back to 0 wouldn't help... unless I'm mistaken, that would only
affect future lockouts, but the accounts that were already locked would stay
locked.
 
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