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Lesson 2 Configuring Account Policies
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The console displays the current Password Policy settings in the details pane, as
shown in Figure 16-8.
Figure 16-8 Configure Password Policy settings in the Local Security Settings window.
Table 16-1 explains the available Password Policy settings.
Table 16-1 Password Policy Settings
Setting Description
Enforce Password History The value you enter for this setting indicates the number of passwords
to be kept in a password history. The default value of 0
indicates that no password history is being kept. You can set the
value from 0 to 24, indicating the number of passwords to be kept
in password history. This value indicates the number of new passwords
that a user must use before he or she can reuse an old password.
Maximum Password Age The value you enter for this setting is the number of days a user
can use a password before he or she is required to change it. A
value of 0 indicates that the password will not expire. The default
value is 42 days, and the range of values is 0 to 999 days.
Minimum Password Age The value you enter for this setting is the number of days a user
must keep a password before he or she can change it. The default
value of 0 indicates that the password can be changed immediately.
If you are enforcing password history, this value should not
be set to 0. The minimum password age must be less than the
maximum password age.
You can set the range of values from 0 to 999 days. This value
indicates how long the user must wait before changing his or her
password again. Use this value to prevent a user who was forced
by the system to change his or her password from immediately
changing it back to the old password.