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Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows: Expiring passwords


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows: Expiring passwords
  • From: Leonard Isham <leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:18:54 -0400

On 5/10/05, Rainer Sokoll <R.Sokoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi alltogether,
> 
> my question is a bit off topic, but someone here may be faced with the
> same problem and have an idea:
> Scenario: Home offices and a Windows domain policy forcing password
> expiration.
> The user logs onto his workstation by using the cached credentials (no
> connection to the domain controller at this time). Afterwards, the user
> fires up OpenVPN and everything is fine.
> But: assumed, the user has to change his password every 60 days or so? I
> am not a windows guru, but from my knowledge: changing the password
> requires a connection to the domain controller. No problem while the VPN
> is up. But the password will only be changed on the domain controller,
> not on the user's computer.
> I would expect that the user now has 2 different passwords for the same
> account (the local password and the password on the domain controller).
> To go ahead: if the users's computer has a domain wide policy that
> requires password change, but the local stored password will /never/ be
> changed, I guess the user will not be able to log onto his computer,
> neither with the remote password (since the local computer did not got
> notified about the password change) nor with the old (local) password
> (since it is marked as expired).
> Does anyone know of a working solution besides running OpenVPN as a
> service?
> 

Now I didn't set this up so I don't know any of the configuration
details, but it worked for me.

1. When VPN connected change your password.
2. Use Ctrl-alt-del to lock your computer.
3. Use Ctrl-alt-del and log into the computer with the new password.

YMMV as I was not involved in the setup or testing.

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.

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