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Old June 9th 08, 09:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
yepiknowiam
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There doesn't appear to be a way to set the password to never expire. The
"expires" field is for the account and not the password.

Is there another way of doing this?
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Old June 9th 08, 10:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
yepiknowiam
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To clarify this user is not on the domain, but on the local workstation.

"yepiknowiam" wrote:

There doesn't appear to be a way to set the password to never expire. The
"expires" field is for the account and not the password.

Is there another way of doing this?

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Old June 10th 08, 12:31 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Mark L. Ferguson
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Rightclick a Command Prompt icon on the start menu. Click 'Run as
administrator'
From the prompt, type:

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

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Mark L. Ferguson

"yepiknowiam" wrote in message
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To clarify this user is not on the domain, but on the local workstation.

"yepiknowiam" wrote:

There doesn't appear to be a way to set the password to never expire.
The
"expires" field is for the account and not the password.

Is there another way of doing this?


 




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