Microsoft KB Archive/179448

= 6-Day Password Change Notification Cannot Be Changed =

Article ID: 179448

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

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This article was previously published under Q179448



SUMMARY
When your Microsoft Windows NT domain password is less than seven days from expiration, you may receive notification when you log on requesting you to change your password. The earliest possible password change notification is determined as described in the following text, and cannot be changed.

Windows uses an optimized formula to determine when to display network password change notifications. When Windows clients use network logon password validation, the account password on the server expires at configurable intervals. Windows notifies the user that the password will expire soon and that they should change the password now.

Windows notifies the user to change password when all of the following conditions are met:
 * RelativeTimeRemaining < 7 days

Basically, the earliest you will receive a notification is 6 days.
 * RelativeTimeRemaining < (25% of RelativePasswordAge)

RelativePasswordAge is going to be governed by the Maximum password age parameter in the User Account Manager. With max password age set to greater than 30 days, the first notification will always occur at 6 days.
 * ServerCurrentTimeOfDay >= PasswdCanChange

Definitions:

RelativePasswordAge: Time since the user password was changed.

PasswdCanChange: Specifies time when the user is allowed to change the password.

PasswdMustChange: Time when the user must change the password.

RelativeTimeRemaining = PasswdMustChange - ServerCurrentTimeOfDay



MORE INFORMATION
Note that this value can be changed for Windows NT 4.0 clients. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

135403 14 Day Password Change Notification Cannot Be Changed

The password change notification is based on the Maximum Password Age setting in the User Manager tool in Microsoft Windows NT.

Additional query words: policy win95 win95x

Keywords: kbenv kbinfo kbnetwork KB179448

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