PWD never expires

Hello Everyone

Windows 2003

In AD, if you leave "Password never expires" untick, what does this mean ?

Does this mean it will exipre after a certain period of time ? If so, how
long ?

Many thanks

Best

 

That means the password will adhere to the account policies. If you have not
set up account policies I don't think it will do anything.

hth
DDS

 

The default setting for "Maximum password age" is, I believe, 42 days, so
unless this has been changed it should apply.

Theoretically, you could set the value to zero (i.e. no password expiry),
but I don't know of any organisation that would contemplate this.

Tony
www.activedir.org

 

Hi
Inline

Depends on your Password policy defined at the domain level.
run RSoP.msc from cmd and you will find out.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

 

Running RSoP might not be accurate, as that will show the policy that
applies to the local SAM. Either run it on a DC (preferably the PDCe), or
check the maxPwdAge attribute of the domain NC. The former is probably
easier, as you need to convert the integer value of maxPwdAge into time
format, but the most accurate value is that of maxPwdAge.

 

Ops, I forgot to say to run it from the DC.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

 

Hi Best,

Thanks to everyone for their key in.

I'd like to summarize everyone's reply:
After clear the "Password never expires" option, the account password will
expire after a period of time. The time is decided by the password policy
setting which can be seen from "rsop.msc" on DC.

I hope the information above can address your concerns. If anything is
unclear, please feel free to let us know.

Sean Cai, MCSE2000
Microsoft Online Support

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