I have an active directory on Windows Server 2016 Standard.
How to create custom password policy on Active Directory? I do not mean standard fine-grained policy with just length of password and number of remembered passwords. I mean I need to prohibit to use names, surname, cities etc. as password.
How to do that?
Please assist.
Thank you for your attention.
You'll need additional software for that. Google password policy enforcer.
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The docs seem to indicate that Self-Service Password Reset is required for password writeback, but do you need to enable SSPR for any users?
My goal is to allow logged in users to change their own passwords within AAD and then for the new password to be written back to ADDS via ADConnect.
But we don't want to enable SSPR and allow 'unauthenticated' users to change their passwords.
So I'm thinking I can just not add any users/groups to the SSPR-enabled setting but the password writeback should still work for all other users?
In contrary to what you said, Password writeback is the requirement to use SSPR. If you can provide the document you are referring, i can possibly have a look.
For the requirement that you have, you will have to enable password writeback in AD Connect and then configure SSPR. Under SSPR options, you can add a group and only members of that group would be able to reset the password.
As for the rest of the synced users in your AAD tenant, only the admin will be able to reset the password for them. The users will not be able to reset their password themselves.
Let me know if this helps.
I'm doing some InfoSec testing and I've discovered some accounts that don't have a password set.
I'm wondering if there is a way to can log into these accounts. I know that for these accounts, their password will be required to be reset upon login, but I'm not sure how to log in. Any ideas?
It might help if you tell us how you determined that they don't have a password set. But if that truly is the case, then there are only two possibilities:
The accounts are disabled. This might happen if the accounts are created via automation. Creating accounts has to be done in two steps: create the account (which is created disabled), then set the password and enable it. You can't enable it without setting a password.
The accounts have the ADS_UF_PASSWD_NOTREQD flag set in the userAccountControl attribute. This means the account can be enabled with no password and you can login with such an account by just not putting anything as the password. You can read more about this here if you'd like.
We are moving user stores from openldap to AD for our wso2 identity server. One problem we've identified is that the default username value, sAMAccountName, is limited to 20 characters.
Based on a bit of googling, most people in AD environments use the UPN value, in the form username#domain. However, this is not an acceptable solution for us. We do not want our users to type in username#domain. We want them to continue typing just 'username' like they are used to.
Is it possible to configure the user-mtg.xml file to append an #domain when users try to log in? Or is there a simpler way to make wso2 identity server aware of the AD domain and just 'know' to append it.
The sAMAccountName is meant to be short because users have to type it in, and the less you have to type to identify yourself, the better.
The userPrincipalName came along later. I think the idea was that it would be the same as the user's email address. That way, people just use their email address to login. Less things to remember. Microsoft does seem to be pushing this method more.
Users can use either/or to login (to a Windows machine anyway). But those are your only options, so you'll have to pick which one to advertise to your users.
I want to know the best practice for authenticating users using OpenLDAP. I could perform a search using the cn.
But then what if I got multiple hits with similar cn (under different ancestors of course) and they all use the same password?
I tried to use uids but then I got some types of accounts that do not use uids (like mail accounts and the admin cn). Also, when I added some users under the admin cn (which has no uid) I could not login with the admin cn.
What is the unique key that identifies a user?
Note: I am using phpldapadmin to manage the active directory, and openldap for the c++ code.
You can configure your OpenLDAP server to perform the uniqueness check on your chosen attribute. CN is not the most favorable attribute to choose for uniqueness I would choose UID attribute and have a policy in place for username generation.
I would like to get in .csv (or any other readable format) all my AD users and the policies that they need to comply (What is their password policy and much much more).
Get-ADUser and CSVDE commands do not give me all the policies.
Basically I need sort of a merge between GPO per user...
Thanks,
Nir