Account Policy on New User Not Enforced

ID: q110291

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server do not enforce account policy of minimum password length restriction to new users created from the User Manager. The behavior is different in Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server as follows:

If the account policy is made so that the minimum password length must be at least five characters:

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords          : kbnetwork
Version           : 3.1
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: August 17, 1998