How to disable password for limited user

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I want to create a limited user and then disable the user's ability to
create/use a password.

How do I do this?

XP media center edition

J
 
J said:
I want to create a limited user and then disable the user's ability to
create/use a password.

How do I do this?

XP media center edition
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Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Local Users and
Groups>Users

Find the user in question and right-click on his name then left-click on
Properties. You will see where you can check the box that says "User cannot
change password". Also check the box for "Password never expires".

If for some reason you don't see this option, you may need to do the
following:

Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab - uncheck "Use Simple File Sharing".
This will give you the ability to set fine-grained permissions since Media
Center is a superset of XP Pro.

(I always have my XP Pro boxen set with Simple File Sharing disabled so I'm
not sure whether the advanced user settings are available with it on or
not, so I'm giving you the extra information just in case.)

Malke
 
J said:
I want to create a limited user and then disable the user's ability
to create/use a password.

How do I do this?

XP media center edition
Click to expand...

Create and use a password *where*?
(Windows Logon?)

As far as I know - without some heavy hacking probably (don't know of any
off-hand) - you cannot prevent a user (other than maybe GUEST) from changing
their own password.

Perhaps someone will enlighten me.

Why would you want to do this?
(You realize with Admin Rights - you can do pretty much whatever you want to
all the other users on the system...)
 
J said:
I want to create a limited user and then disable the user's ability
to create/use a password.

How do I do this?

XP media center edition
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Create and use a password *where*?
(Windows Logon?)

As far as I know - without some heavy hacking probably (don't know
of any off-hand) - you cannot prevent a user (other than maybe
GUEST) from changing their own password.

Perhaps someone will enlighten me.

Why would you want to do this?
(You realize with Admin Rights - you can do pretty much whatever
you want to all the other users on the system...)
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Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Local Users
and Groups>Users

Find the user in question and right-click on his name then
left-click on Properties. You will see where you can check the box
that says "User cannot change password". Also check the box for
"Password never expires".
If for some reason you don't see this option, you may need to do the
following:

Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab - uncheck "Use Simple File
Sharing". This will give you the ability to set fine-grained
permissions since Media Center is a superset of XP Pro.

(I always have my XP Pro boxen set with Simple File Sharing
disabled so I'm not sure whether the advanced user settings are
available with it on or not, so I'm giving you the extra
information just in case.)
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See, Malke proved me wrong!

The most unfortunate part - I remembered it after reading it. *shrug* Oh
well.

Thanks, Malke!
 
Shenan said:
See, Malke proved me wrong!

The most unfortunate part - I remembered it after reading it. *shrug* Oh
well.

Thanks, Malke!
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No problem. And of course I can't remember whether Simple File Sharing makes
the slightest difference to managing users, so you're not alone. ;-)

Cheers Shenan,

Malke
 
Thank you.

Malke said:
Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Local Users and
Groups>Users

Find the user in question and right-click on his name then left-click on
Properties. You will see where you can check the box that says "User
cannot
change password". Also check the box for "Password never expires".

If for some reason you don't see this option, you may need to do the
following:

Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab - uncheck "Use Simple File Sharing".
This will give you the ability to set fine-grained permissions since Media
Center is a superset of XP Pro.

(I always have my XP Pro boxen set with Simple File Sharing disabled so
I'm
not sure whether the advanced user settings are available with it on or
not, so I'm giving you the extra information just in case.)

Malke
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