Re: User account lockout

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From: Paul Matear (paul_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/08/04


Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:56:29 -0000

do they lock the workstation or log out?

if they lock, maybe they have something in common such as a screensaver that
is non-standard, making calls to a resource that they don't have access to

regards
paul

"DJE" <deaglesham@excite.com> wrote in message
news:a5ff01c3ec1a$e22e5d20$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an issue where several users get locked out of
> their accounts after they leave their workstations for 15
> to 20 minutes. Workstations are Windows XP and Server is
> Windows 2003.
>
> At first I just thought the users were typing passwords
> incorrectly, so I increased the Failure attempts to 10
> before the account is locked out.
>
> I had a user get locked out a few minutes ago, and
> checking the security log I see 10 failed attempts before
> the account is locked. However, these 10 attempts occur in
> the span of 45 seconds. I don't think the user is doing
> this.
>
> Any suggestions what the cause would be?



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