need registry key for blank passwd

[Tony]

Hi All,

I am going into a zero security situation next
week. I am going to have manually turn off

--> Control Panel
--> Local Security Settings
--> Security Options - Accounts
--> Limit local account use of blank
passwords to console login only


So anyone can log into anyone without a password.

Can anyone tell which registry key and value "off"
corresponds to so I can just load a registry key?
(It would save a lot of time if I could just write my
own .reg file to turn off "blank passwords to console
login only.")

Many thanks,
--Tony

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Take a look at this registry key which may disable it I believe when set to
zero as shown.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\limitblankpassworduse:
0x00000000

I use a free program called Regshot to do comparisons of the registry before
and after such a change. There are other programs that may be a bit easier
to use but for the price and the fact that it does not have to be installed
make Regshot a neat utility to have.--- Steve

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regshot.html --- Regshot.

 

[Tony]

Thank you!! I will download regshot shortly.

--Tony

 

[Guest]

http://www.theeldergeek.com gives the registry entries for most of these
items.