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07.03.2008 at 06:27PM PDT, ID: 23538542
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Windows SBS 2003 keeps resetting password on development machine

Asked by sampsoni in SBS Small Business Server, Windows Network Security Questions, Active Directory

Tags: Microsoft, Windows SBS, 2003, Local development server

I'm developing an authentication provider for dotnetnuke against active directory. All my code does is use a service account to impersonate a user so that it can lookup other users credentials in AD. Pretty standard AD stuff. Unless I've done something wrong, the code does not fiddle with AD accounts - it's purely read access.

Problem - The passwords for several test users and my service account get reset every now and then while I'm developing.

Q. Any ideas why the passwords are getting reset?
 Is there any mechanism that is a user logs in several time in a minute or if there are code exceptions (because I'm testing logins) that SBS automatically resets it?

Is there any logfile that will show me when, how and who changed the passwords?

I'm trying to figure out if the resets are because my code is driving something (in which case I can't release it) or if its just some inbuilt mechanism in SBS2003 that is kicking in because of my testing.

Thanks
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Tags: Microsoft, Windows SBS, 2003, Local development server
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[+][-]07.03.2008 at 06:44PM PDT, ID: 21930531

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