How to reset a Domain Account password ?

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pcmangler

Hi,

My new company laptop is on a domain, which only exists at the head
office - 300 miles away.
They have allocated me a domain password which is my name plus a few
numbers. Annoyingly, they've spelled my name incorrectly and it's
bugging me, having to type that in everytime I log on.

The problem is that the laptop will never be physically connected to
the office domain again, so it's not just a case of asking them to
change it. They can change it on the server at their end, but my
laptop will still have the incorrect one cached locally.

Is there any way I can correct the locally cached password for my
domain account ?

If I can, then I can ask them to correct it at their end too (not that
it matters), so in the highly unlikely event I ever go to the head
office and plug in, the passwords will match.

Any ideas ?

Many thanks.

PcM.
 
pcmangler said:
My new company laptop is on a domain, which only exists at the head
office - 300 miles away.
They have allocated me a domain password which is my name plus a few
numbers. Annoyingly, they've spelled my name incorrectly and it's
bugging me, having to type that in everytime I log on.

The problem is that the laptop will never be physically connected to
the office domain again, so it's not just a case of asking them to
change it. They can change it on the server at their end, but my
laptop will still have the incorrect one cached locally.

Is there any way I can correct the locally cached password for my
domain account ?

If I can, then I can ask them to correct it at their end too (not
that it matters), so in the highly unlikely event I ever go to the
head office and plug in, the passwords will match.
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You are likely going to have to remain "annoyed".

Technically - that is a horrible password and if your company's "IT" people
had bothered to turn on password complexity - you wouldn't have this problem
as your password would be unable to contain your name on a properly
configured domain with complexity turned on for passwords.

What I really do not understand is why they bothered joining your laptop to
the domain anyway. If I were in your shoes and I had admin rights on the
laptop (or could hack them) - I would (after copying everything from mhy
account to someplace safe) and create a local account for myself and use
that from now on.
 
You might be able to do it if you have a VPN connection to the network
domain in which case you could logon via VPN, use control-alt-delete to
change your password if your VPN client will allow it, then while still
connected via VPN lock your computer via control-alt-delete and unlock it
using the new password. Beyond that you are out of luck. --- Steve
 
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