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by abailey101 5 views

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Is there a way to allow one user to have more that the default Invalid Login attempts. I do know about the setting in the user manager under account policy, however, I only want to change this setting for 1 logon not everyone on my domain

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by curlergirl

The only way I know that you could do this would be to create a separate Organizational Unit within Active Directory and put that one person in it. Then, you could create a group policy and configure the account lockout policy the way you want it, and apply it only to that OU. Hope this helps!

by abailey101

I should have been a little more specific in what operating systems we had. We are using a NT 4.0 domain.

by jedimaster2003

The only way to actually find out if one specific user is repeatedly loging in or not is to Audit his or her account, or machine, this of course would be for one machine or user on your NT 4.0 domain. I do have friends that audit a user in this fashion.

Hope this helps.

by abailey101

The issue I am facing is that I have one account that logs on to many evacuation notification PC's arround our mill I have been getting calls where the account has been locked out.

by timwalsh

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to apply account settings to individuals or groups. They are applied against every domain user (when configured thru User Manager for Domains.

Local computer settings (configured thru User Manager on the local computer) apply to anyone logging on to the local computer (vs. logging on to the domain).

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