Helpful Note: Change Your Own Password
If you are on a Windows domain in your workplace and your Systems Administrator hasn't disabled the ability for you to change your password, then you can take control of your own security issues (or insecurity as the case may be) and change your password with relative ease. Here's how:
Press the Control, Alt and Delete keys at the same time.
Press the 'Change Password...' button.
Type your old password in the first field.
Type a new password in the second field.
Type the new password again in the third field.
Press OK.
That's all there is to it - Consider yourself empowered.
posted by Stuart Cowen @ 6:10 PM
3 Comments:
I'm trying to figure out why any [competent] system administrator would disable the ability to change a password. On the contrary, I'd expect most sysadmins to FORCE password changes and also to FORCE complex passwords. Of course, some people have accused me of being a network nazi :-)
Password testing utility from MS (so you can decide for yourself if it has any quality): http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/password_checker.mspx
You would prevent password changes on kiosk machines or machines/user accounts that multiple users use, service accounts, etc...
Yeah, I didn't have that exact application in mind, but there are definitely reasons where a password should be prevented from being changed. Functional IDs is another. These IDs are shared by a group of people (i.e., volunteers) and you wouldn't want one of them locking out the others.
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