> I often wondered how many good computers are thrown away because an
> employee quits or gets fired and no one else knows their password.
Probably none. You don't have to know the users password you just need to
know the admin account and password. If you didn't know the admin account
and password there are TONs of apps out there that can reset the admin
password to what you want.
They
> finally got some computer expert to come there and he set it up so
> that everyone was assigned a password, it was written down, and no was
> allowed to change them without a written notice requesting the change.
> Then the guy who took care of the computers would ok the change and
> program it into the network. If I recall, they had to change the hard
> drives in the computers with lost passwords. I suppose they would
> reformat them?
Writing down a password is NEVER acceptable. If the guy knew what he was
doing he would have set up a domain and the problems with the passwords
would have been moot. The domain admin would be able to reset a password for
any user without knowing the original password.
hth
DDS
<no@no.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:57:02 -0800, Chad Guiney
> <ChadGuiney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a problem with users not being able to unlock a computer locked by
>>someone else. We have CAP regulations that state we must have a
>>screensaver
>>screen lock on every computer in our lab. However when someone walks away
>>from that computer and someone else needs to use it they cannot unlock the
>>previous user becuase they are not admin. The users of these computers are
>>not allowed to have local admin access to the computer becuase of the same
>>CAP regulations. Is there a way around this? Without making everyone local
>>admin? Thanks in advance.
>
> I often wondered how many good computers are thrown away because an
> employee quits or gets fired and no one else knows their password.
> I once worked in an office and we used our own passwords to login.
> Several times people would quit and their computer was useless. They
> finally got some computer expert to come there and he set it up so
> that everyone was assigned a password, it was written down, and no was
> allowed to change them without a written notice requesting the change.
> Then the guy who took care of the computers would ok the change and
> program it into the network. If I recall, they had to change the hard
> drives in the computers with lost passwords. I suppose they would
> reformat them?
>
>