Password question

From: MikeF (ctatraining_at_no-spamzapcomcast.net)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:37:02 -0500

There has to be an answer to this, but it has eluded me. Regarding 2K3 and
XP, Msft says:

...after a user's password is reset, some types of information are no longer
accessible, including the following:

E-mail that is encrypted with the user's public key
Internet passwords that are saved on the computer
Files that the user has encrypted

To avoid such data loss, do not reset a user's password. When a new local
user account is created, have the user create a password reset disk. Then,
if the user forgets the password, the password reset disk can be used to
reset the password without data loss. If a user forgets the password to a
domain user account, the password must be reset manually.

Unquote. That is, you, the admin, can't use the reset disk to reset the pw
on the domain acount. However, on the reset domain account password page,
they give the same warning about data loss.

So the user loses his keys and certificates if heshe forgets hisher AD
password? This is very unlike MSFT. Is the only way around this for the
admin to recover the users encrypted stuff, give it back to the user
unencrypted, & reset the password?
TIA
Mike

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