Re: Password Policy Question

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From: Jenna (stilesj)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:50:50 -0400

Thank you both for the confirmation and additional information! This is
extremely helpful and I trust it will work for me alright.
Thanks,
Jenna

"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Jenna-
> Yes, you can set password never expires on a per-user basis and that will
> essentially override the password lifetime that you set in account policy,
> but you can't override password complexity per user, unfortunately. There
> may be third party password filters that can do this, however.
>
> --
> Darren Mar-Elia
> MS-MVP-Windows Management
> http://www.gpoguy.com
>
>
>
> "Jenna" <stilesj AT nospam DOT com> wrote in message
> news:OntSFEOZEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Okay, searching around a little more on google I seem to have found that
> you
> > can set a password policy for a domain, but override it for select users
> by
> > selecting Password Never Expires on those specific accounts. Can anyone
> > verify that? Does that apply for complexity of passwords, too, or just
> for
> > changing them regularly, etc.?
> >
> > "Jenna" <stilesj AT nospam DOT com> wrote in message
> > news:%23tLs4E3YEHA.2500@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > I would like to apply a password policy to my domain. This would
apply
> to
> > > all computers/users in the domain. However, there are a couple of
user
> > > accounts for which I would like to keep a single constant password.
If
> I
> > > change the computer configuration in the default domain policy to
> include
> > a
> > > more stringent password policy, can I still individually set a couple
of
> > > accounts to ignore that policy?
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>