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How do I allow some domain users to login without a password

I have a school that has all of its kids in Active Directory and of course all PC's are joined to the domain. What we want to do is allow all kids K-4 to not have a password to login. Can I do this per OU and if so can someone point me in the correct direction to get this accomplished? Each grade has its own OU. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I am using a 2008 Domain controller hosting primarily XP machines with a few Windows 7 machines for about 750 nodes. Thanks for helping!

athomsfere

Assuming your hierarchy looks like:

SchoolSystem.com
---K
---1
---2
---3
etc

Then you would need to configure the password policy for the domain as none, and then OUs 5 and up add the password policies you want.

Member_2_957366

If it is a domain with AD, I don't believe that you can create profiles without a password. On the other hand, you can create local users without a password. However, if these users need access to the resources on the AD, they must provide a username and password before they can gain access.

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Member_2_957366

Athomsfere, I believe that he wants to have "some domain users" without password.

mkline, Fine Grained Password policies do require password to log onto resources.

Mike Kline

He could set minimum password length (msDS-MinimumPasswordLength) to 0

RTSCCFLAX

ASKER

mkline I am trying your solution right now. I will let you know if this works!

athomsfere I tried your solution and it still wouldn't let me do it.

I will post back results.

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ASKER

mkline -- WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!! I also found a program called Password Policy Manager which helped out a lot. And best of all it was freeware although I am going to donate because it just saved my butt!! You can read about it here http://www.parhelia-tools.com/products/ppm/ppm.aspx Thanks everyone for your help now the young kids do not have to remember an 8 character password causing me to reset their password on a daily basis! :P

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ASKER

Thanks alot this was exactly what I was looking for!

Mike Kline

Awesome tool, there are several good third party tools that put GUI's around Fine Grained Passwords/PSO's for 2008.

Microsoft is doing it too...but not until Windows 8 do we get the GUI http://adisfun.blogspot.com/2011/09/windows-server-8-fine-grained-password.html

Thanks

Mike