Effective Setting Under Local Security Settings

From: diane walker (ett9300_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:39:43 -0800

I open Local Security Settings on Windows 2000 Professional. Under Account
Policies, Password Policy, Minimum Password Length, Effective Setting, the
password default is 6 characters. Is there a way to change the password
default effective setting?

Thanks.