Re: Passowrd complexity LOCAL Account

From: Derek Melber [MVP] (derekm_at_braincore.net)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:39:17 -0700

Place this computer account into an OU. Then, link a new GPO to the OU,
configuring the GPO's Account Policy like you want the local SAM to behave.
The processing order of GPOs is Site - Domain - OU. Here, the OU GPO will
take precedence. 

-- 
Derek Melber
BrainCore.Net
derekm@braincore.net
"kd" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11dfb01c410e6$a4aa8e60$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Although we have complexity turned on for our default
> domain policy I still want people to be able to create
> local user accounts with passwords that do not follow the
> complexity requirements.  Is this possible?  If I try to
> creat a user called Test with a password of test it will
> not work and get the following error:
>
> Local Users and Groups
>
> The following error occurred while attempting to create
> the user Test on computer COMPUTER1.
>
> The password does not meet the password policy
> requirements.  Check the minimum password length,
> password complexity and password history requirements.
>
> Thanks for your help!

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