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  1. #1
    Matt Guest

    Disable password complexity rules

    First of all, I thought for sure I posted this question to this same
    board last night, but can't find it anywhere. Forgive me if I double-
    posted. I did try to find it.

    We are implementing a web app that users will be able to change their
    own passwords, and accounts can be unlocked by certain users. This
    app will also be managing all of our password requirements, age,
    history, complexity, etc, so I need to turn those rules off in the
    Default Domain Policy. All of the password policies were set
    (Password history, Minimum and Maximum Password age, length, and also
    complexity. Initially, I set all of these policies to Not Defined,
    thinking that would turn them off. It did not however. I did some
    googling, and found a suggestion to set them to Defined, but to set
    the values to 0. I tried this as well, but I still cannot set my
    password to "abc" or something similar. Any other suggestions???

    Thanks in advance.

  2. #2
    Anteaus Guest

    RE: Disable password complexity rules


    Try issuing gpupdate /force from a commandprompt.

    You are right in thinking that Not Defined doesn't remove the restrictions,
    btw.

    Though, I'm convinced there is a bug in this policy, because I've had
    problems with it on virtually every 2003 server I've built. It usually takes
    multiple attemtps to change it. Sometimes even after success, it reverts
    later.


    "Matt" wrote:

    > First of all, I thought for sure I posted this question to this same
    > board last night, but can't find it anywhere. Forgive me if I double-
    > posted. I did try to find it.
    >
    > We are implementing a web app that users will be able to change their
    > own passwords, and accounts can be unlocked by certain users. This
    > app will also be managing all of our password requirements, age,
    > history, complexity, etc, so I need to turn those rules off in the
    > Default Domain Policy. All of the password policies were set
    > (Password history, Minimum and Maximum Password age, length, and also
    > complexity. Initially, I set all of these policies to Not Defined,
    > thinking that would turn them off. It did not however. I did some
    > googling, and found a suggestion to set them to Defined, but to set
    > the values to 0. I tried this as well, but I still cannot set my
    > password to "abc" or something similar. Any other suggestions???
    >
    > Thanks in advance.
    >


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