On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 12:32PM, John Buell <email@hidden> wrote:
>Having set up two computer labs for Macs authenticating against Active
>Directory, we've got 3300 or so students with default passwords that they
>have to change on their first logons. For many of them, the password is
>blank, and the Mac clients don't like this at all, so we reserved one of the
>PC labs to let the kids go sign in with their logon IDs the first time, set
>a password, and go back to the Mac lab. For those kids who do NOT have a
>blank password (because we've instituted an Active Directory policy change
>with passwords since setting up the initial batch), they can login, their
>Panther (10.3.9) client G4 or G5 (one lab of each) tells them they have to
>change their password, but there's no way to back out of this like there is
>on a PC. Is this a "feature"?
Well, if the password is expired, and they need to change it, why back out? That would be my guess on the behavior.
Yes, blank passwords are a bad thing.
Josh
www.afp548.com
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