Password Never Expires greyed out

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   There is no issue to be solve that is build in and default administrator that window 2000 creates and that box is always grayed out .If u want u could create another administrator with same membership and that one u could have that option. U could also right click on the administrator and press reset the password if u want.

Hey Vahik.  Thanks for the response.  What confuses me is that the administrator account is NOT greyed out if it is not on a domain controller.  It's only a local domain controller that greys out that button.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Art

there is only one DC there  is no such thing as local domain controller and they all have the same default unless u create another admin with same permissins and membership and u delete the origional one.
But I would only suggest renaming that administrator instead.

Hey Vahik.  Thanks for the response.  What confuses me is that the administrator account is NOT greyed out if it is not on a domain controller.  It's only a local domain controller that greys out that button.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Art

Hey there....what I mean by local domain controller is the local administrator account ON the domain controller for the domain.  I was hoping there was some registry setting where we could uncheck that box cause even renaming the account or changing permissions will still through that security alert of having a password that doesn't expire.

Thanks again,
Art

usualy companies make the administrator passwords very complex so they dont want to change the password every day unless they have to they do it manualy by reseting the password .specially  they dont want someone to apply a policy to screw up administrators password  But like I said u could create a name with same mambership and permissions and delete that one if u want.

Hey there.  It's starting to look like that there is nothing we can do about getting that box greyed out.  Vahik's idea of changing the name (which we've done) and applying different permissions may be the only way to go.  It won't stop the security alerts (box still checked), but at least they alerts will be uselss because it's an account with no privs.  If anyone does have a certain idea how to ungrey that box, keep the ideas coming.

Thanks,
Art

I don't understand what's causing the security alerts, with the box checked it shouldn't ask for the password to be changed.  Is it some other application that's surveying your security that's giving you this alert?

Hey there.  Yes, it's a third party application that scans all our boxes and looks for things like that.  So we either uncheck that box somehow (which is my preference), or we have them stop scanning for that issue.  I'd rather have it unchecked as we want them to continue to scan for that.

Art

Hey there.  Yes, it's a third party application that scans all our boxes and looks for things like that.  So we either uncheck that box somehow (which is my preference), or we have them stop scanning for that issue.  I'd rather have it unchecked as we want them to continue to scan for that.

Art

Well, instead of changing a safeguard that could lock you out of your domain controler, I would contact the third party software maker and see if there's a way you can set it to not check for the expired pasword setting on the domain controler only (being you can't, and really shouldn't if you could turn it on anyway.)

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