Hi,

I realise that exploiting this issue would require domain admin rights, but it 
still seems unnecessarily insecure to me:


Scenario: A Windows domain with an n day password expiration policy and Windows 
2000 SP4 PCs with all the latest security patches. I know that a Windows user 
will have to change their password today, so I set AutoAdminLogon to 1 in their 
registry. When they switch off their PC and go home I am able to log on to 
their PC, using their account, but without requiring a password.


Surely this can't be the way it's supposed to work?! I thought that the 
DefaultPassword registry entry had to contain the password for DefaultUserName 
before auto logon would work yet it seems to work if DefaultPassword is 
missing. Can anyone else confirm this behaviour or suggest what I may have done 
wrong?


Cheers,

Mike





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