Amir,
It's possible that they could have changed their pwd through other
mechanisms such as through OWA. At this point though there is not enough
information to determine when and how the password was changed.
blim
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| >Subject: Re: User Couldn't Log in
| >Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:18:03 -0800
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| >Hi,
| >
| >Is pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and choosing Change Password
| >the only accidental way that the user would change the
| >password? It seems to be kind of hard to do that by
| >accident.
| >
| >
| >>-----Original Message-----
| >>Hello Amir.
| >>
| >>It is possible that the password may have been
| >accidentally changed by the
| >>user or an administrator. Since there is no means to see
| >what password is
| >>set on the user account, there is no way to check this.
| >>
| >>If this occurs regularly, you may want to enable auditing
| >to track password
| >>changes:
| >>822703 How to Determine Whether Users Changed Their
| >Passwords Before an
| >>Account
| >>
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822703
| >>
| >>Best Regards,
| >>David Fisher
| >>Enterprise Platform Support
| >>
| >>
| >message
| >>| >>> Hi, Ben,
| >>>
| >>> The error message was "Bad username or password". I,
| >>> also, tried logging in with her username and password to
| >>> my own computer, but it didn't work. I was using the
| >>> right password.
| >>>
| >>>
| >>> >-----Original Message-----
| >>> >Amir,
| >>> >
| >>> >If the error message that the user was receiving
| >was "bad
| >>> user name or
| >>> >password" that would be attributed to a fat-fingered
| >>> password or the user
| >>> >may have just forgotten it. Do you have the error
| >>> message the user was
| >>> >getting?
| >>> >
| >>> >blim
| >>> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
| >and
| >>> confers no rights.\
| >>> >
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| >>> >| >Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| >>> >| >From: "Amir" <
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| >>> >| >Sender: "Amir" <
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| >>> >| >Subject: User Couldn't Log in
| >>> >| >Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:18:10 -0800
| >>> >| >Lines: 7
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| >>> >| >X-Tomcat-NG:
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| >>> >| >
| >>> >| >Hi,
| >>> >| >
| >>> >| >This morning one of the employees could not log in
| >>> using
| >>> >| >her password. I fixed it by resetting her password.
| >>> What
| >>> >| >could suddenly cause this to happen?
| >>> >| >
| >>> >| >Thanks
| >>> >| >
| >>> >
| >>> >.
| >>> >
| >>
| >>
| >>.
| >>
| >
