Root account Lockout

Hi all,
since a few weeks, my root account lock every 5 days but I can't figure out why.
I've look in log file but can't see anything that help me figure out what or why the root account lock.
My question is, where can I look to figure out what lock me root account or is there a log that I need to activate to be able to see what's hapening to the root account.
Thx all.
Doug

Does your system log all root login attempts via syslog to auth.log or something similar? If so, do you see any attempts by any user to login? If it is every five days, do you have any scheduled jobs that run some process that tries to log in as root but is failing? Are you running BART or something similar which checks manifests - perhaps you have malware that is editing your /etc/shadow and locking your root for malicious purposes.

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Random Account Lockout (How to trace source?)

In Windows 2003 server native domain environment: XP Pro machines have no issues, but all ~10 PCs that have Win7 Pro (in different offices) have their domain accounts locked out randomly throughout the day. Workstations have no passwords listed in credentials
management.
Suspect it is something on the workstations that is sending incorrect logon and triggering the invalid password lockout limit on domain policy. Found MSFT tools to trace in XP, but nothing for Win7. Does anyone know how to use Procmon or similiar tool to
trace such source on the workstations? Thank you.
(Procmon.exe from systernals)

Hi,
The user account has been automatically locked because too many invalid logon attempts or password change attempts have been requested.
We can run the LockoutStatus.exe on domain controller to identify and investigate the account lockout issue.
Troubleshooting tools:
By using this tool, we can gather and displays information about the specified user account including the domain admin's account
from all the domain controllers in the domain. In addition, the tool displays the user's badPwdCount value on each domain controller. The domain controllers that have a badPwdCount value that reflects the bad password threshold setting for the domain are the
domain controllers that are involved in the lockout. These domain controllers always include the PDC emulator operations master.
You may download the tool from the link
Download Account Lockout Status (LockoutStatus.exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D1A5ED1D-CD55-4829-A189-99515B0E90F7&displaylang=en
Once we confirm the problematic computer, we can perform further research to locate the root cause. Actually, there are many possible
causes for bad password, such as cached password, schedule task, mapped drives, services, etc. Please remove the previous password cache which may be used by some applications and therefore cause the account lockout problem.
Troubleshooting steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type "control userpasswords2" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Click the "Manage Password" button.
4. Check to see if these domain account's passwords are cached. If so, remove them.
5. Check if the problem has been resolved now.
If there is any application or service is running as the problematic user account, please disable it and then check whether the problem
occurs.
For your convenience, I'd like to list the common troubleshooting steps and resolutions for account lockouts as the following:
Common Causes for Account Lockouts
To avoid false lockouts, please check each computer on which a lockout occurred for the following behaviors:
Programs:
Many programs cache credentials or keep active threads that retain the credentials after a user changes their password.
Service accounts:
Service account passwords are cached by the service control manager on member computers that use the account as well as domain controllers.
If you reset the password for a service account and you do not reset the password in the service control manager, account lockouts for the service account occur. This is because the computers that use this account typically retry logon authentication by using
the previous password. To determine whether this is occurring, look for a pattern in the Netlogon log files and in the event log files on member computers. You can then configure the service control manager to use the new password and avoid future account
lockouts.
Bad Password Threshold is set too low:
This is one of the most common misconfiguration issues. Many companies set the Bad Password Threshold registry value to a value lower
than the default value of 10. If you set this value too low, false lockouts occur when programs automatically retry passwords that are not valid. Microsoft recommends that you leave this value at its default value of 10. For more information, see "Choosing
Account Lockout Settings for Your Deployment" in this document.
User logging on to multiple computers:
A user may log onto multiple computers at one time. Programs that are running on those computers may access network resources with
the user credentials of that user who is currently logged on. If the user changes their password on one of the computers, programs that are running on the other computers may continue to use the original password. Because those programs authenticate when they
request access to network resources, the old password continues to be used and the users account becomes locked out. To ensure that this behavior does not occur, users should log off of all computers, change the password from a single location, and then log
off and back on.
Stored user names and passwords retain redundant credentials:
If any of the saved credentials are the same as the logon credential, you should delete those credentials. The credentials are redundant
because Windows tries the logon credentials when explicit credentials are not found. To delete logon credentials, use the Stored User Names and Passwords tool. For more information about Stored User Names and Passwords, see online help in Windows XP and the
Windows Server 2003 family.
Scheduled tasks:
Scheduled processes may be configured to using credentials that have expired.
Persistent drive mappings:
Persistent drives may have been established with credentials that subsequently expired. If the user types explicit credentials when
they try to connect to a share, the credential is not persistent unless it is explicitly saved by Stored User Names and Passwords. Every time that the user logs off the network, logs on to the network, or restarts the computer, the authentication attempt fails
when Windows attempts to restore the connection because there are no stored credentials. To avoid this behavior, configure net use so that is does not make persistent connections. To do this, at a command prompt, please type net use /persistent:no. Alternately,
to ensure current credentials are used for persistent drives, disconnect and reconnect the persistent drive.
Active Directory replication:
User properties must replicate between domain controllers to ensure that account lockout information is processed properly. You should
verify that proper Active Directory replication is occurring.
Disconnected Terminal Server sessions:
Disconnected Terminal Server sessions may be running a process that accesses network resources with outdated authentication information.
A disconnected session can have the same effect as a user with multiple interactive logons and cause account lockout by using the outdated credentials. The only difference between a disconnected session and a user who is logged onto multiple computers is that
the source of the lockout comes from a single computer that is running Terminal Services.
Service accounts:
By default, most computer services are configured to start in the security context of the Local System account. However, you can
manually configure a service to use a specific user account and password. If you configure a service to start with a specific user account and that accounts password is changed, the service logon property must be updated with the new password or that service
may lock out the account.
Internet Information Services:
By default, IIS uses a token-caching mechanism that locally caches user account authentication information. If lockouts are limited to users who try to gain access
to Exchange mailboxes through Outlook Web Access and IIS, you can resolve the lockout by resetting the IIS token cache. For more information, see "Mailbox Access via OWA Depends on IIS Token Cache" in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base.
MSN Messenger and Microsoft Outlook:
If a user changes their domain password through Microsoft Outlook and the computer is running MSN Messenger, the client may become locked out. To resolve this behavior,
see "MSN Messenger May Cause Domain Account Lockout After a Password Change" in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base.
For more information, please refer to the following link:
Troubleshooting Account Lockout
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773155.aspx
Account Passwords and Policies in Windows Server 2003
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783860.aspx
Hope this helps!
Novak

I am trying to activate root account on my MAC. The directions I've seen do not match what is in System Preference for Accounts or Users

I am trying to activate the root account on my new Mac Book Pro. The instructions that I have found do not match what I have in System Preferences. What is the process when using Users and Groups. When I click on Join the Network Account Server- Open Directory Utility I don't see a option to activate root user as the instructions say at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528
OS X Lion
From the Apple menu choose System Preferences....
From the View menu choose Users & Groups.
Click the lock and authenticate as an administrator account.
Click Login Options....
Click the "Edit..." or "Join..." button at the bottom right.
Click the "Open Directory Utility..." button.
Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.
Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.
Enter the root password you wish to use in both the Password and Verify fields, then click OK.

Do you mean you cannot select "Enable Root User" from the "Edit" menu as shown below?
Why do you think you need to enable the root user? I've never needed it in the history of OS X.

How can I transfer the root account on my computer to a regular account?

Not sure if this in the correct category, but anyway...
Back in October 2010, I installed a Java update or something on my regular account, and it broke the account for some reason. I had no other account to use except for the root user that I enabled previously (just for testing). I logged into it and used it as my regular account, checking every so often to check if my regular account fixed itself. Sadly, it didn’t (at the time), but after a while, I upgraded my computer to Snow Leopard (I was previously running Leopard), I found that my old account finally fixed itself. Immediately, I attempted to copy over all of my files from the root account to the other account. I went onto the account, and it seemed to be a fresh account, so I assumed that it didn’t register the account files as legitimate and I guess it made it into a new account. I gave up after fiddling with it for a bit. To this day, I’m still using the root user as my main account, but a lot of things are broken (like Spotlight, Mail search, some other things) and I’d just like to know a clean way I could easily transfer all of the stuff from the root user to my old account (including all of the Library files and such). Please don’t say “You shouldn’t have used the root user because it’s really dangerous,” or whatever. I’ve been responsible with it for almost 2 years and I don’t think I could’ve done anything else. Thanks for any help.

Its doable with Terminal. Log into your new userfolder in the /Users/ folder and open Terminal and say:
whoami
This is the owner of your newly transferred files.
Log into your root account and Launch Terminal. You will use the scp (secure copy) command to copy your files over to the new userfolder, replacing PathToNewFolder with the path to your new folder:
cd /PathToNewFolder
scp -r /private/var/root/* .
The copied files will all have ownership of root account, so you will then set ownership of all the files to your new username that you remember from above, replacing "NewName" with your new username:
$USER=NewName
find . -exec chown $USER:admin {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
chmod 755 Library
find Library -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find Library -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
chmod 755 Library/Autosave\ Information Library/Application\ Support Library/Keychains Library/Application\ Support/Terminal
chmod 644 Library/Preferences/QuickTime\ Preferences Library/Keychains/* Library/Favorites/* Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
chmod 755 Public ~/Sites
chmod 733 Public/Drop\ Box
find Sites -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find Sites -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Then you can login to your new account with all your stuff hopefully intact. If anything doesn't work respond here and it can be fixed.

Account Lockout issue between Apple devices and Exchange 2003

I have been having an ongoing issue for a couple of months with a few different users Apple devices locking out their accounts in AD when they try to authenticate to ActiveSync. This doesn't happen every time they authenticate, it seems to be random,
while the rest of the time they have access to their email. It might occasionally happen with an Android, but not on a repetitive basis like this.
Primarily this has been four different iPads, running different versions of iOS, and an iPhone running the latest release of iOS 7. Other iPhones and iPads function without having the problem, including iPhones on iOS 7.
The user accounts in question are set to never have their passwords expire, but again, they aren't the only users that are set like this, and those other users, even with Apple devices are not having the same problem.
I used NetWrix to trace out the source machine, which is my Exchange 2003 server and times, and I've checked the W3SVC1 log file, and come up with the following as an example with identification details masked:
<internal IP>, <Domain\Username>, 4/30/2014, 8:10:04, W3SVC1, <ServerName>, <internal IP>, 15, 329, 3367926, 200, 0, GET, /exchange-oma/<[email protected]>/NON_IPM_SUBTREE/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync/iPad/ApplV50462*****/eb53cd5d5b9fcf40****************-20ef44,
As I was typing this, the owner of the iPad from the log file above came by my desk, so I asked a couple more questions. He's never had another iPad, it's a gen 1, and he's never updated the iOS on it. I know one of the other iPads in question
has the most up to date iOS, and the other one is brand new, replacing one that was broken, but the owner of that one had the same issue on a 3 year old iOS.
There is nothing special about the user accounts, no special privileges or restrictions.
Has anyone encountered this before? Exchange 2003, Server 2003 in a 2008 domain. Promotion to the 2008 domain was 2 years ago.

Hi Brian,
I am so sorry for the delay.
Do you have any progress by now?
Since there are lots of devices which use user accounts to log on, failed logon attempts on these devices could be the cause for account lockout.
If this issue persists, I suggest you refer to these troubleshooting articles below:
Troubleshooting account lockout the PSS way
http://blogs.technet.com/b/instan/archive/2009/09/01/troubleshooting-account-lockout-the-pss-way.aspx
Troubleshooting Account Lockout
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773155(v=WS.10).aspx
In addition, you can also get efficient support at Active Sync forum below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/home?forum=exchangesvrmobilitylegacy
Best Regards,
Amy

How to allow users to launch SMC; login to SMC without root account

I've very familliar with how to create accounts and assign members to groups and assign privliges in Solairs 10 using SMC. I want a user to review the audit logs using the SMC console since the logs are GUI but I don't want the user to use the root account to login to SMC. I know the user can use the su command but I can only login with root after typing su and then launch SMC.
Bottom line what is the best way a user can use the SMC console without having the root password to execute SMC and then login to SMC and view the audit logs?
A million thanks
John

I found the best solution is to use a Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Using SMC as root go the the Role Icon and setup a Role using the wizzard. Next have the user login to the system, go to the terminal and type:
/usr/sadm/bin/smc &
The individual user will be prompted to login with his specific user name and password and then prompted to use the Role Login Name and Password you provided in the above paragraph.
Now the user can perform SMC functions without the need for root.

Event 4740 Not Logged for a Single Account Lockout

Domain Functional Level: 2003
PDC Emulator: 2008 R2
Lockout Origin DC (also the RADIUS server): 2003 R2
For quite a while now I have been relying on Event 4740 on the PDC Emulator to track account lockouts. Usually when the RADIUS server causes an account lockout, the Caller Computer Name is blank in the Event 4740. This usually tells me that our
Cisco WLAN Controller caused the lockout.
Our Default Domain Policy is set to audit Account Logon Events for failure, Account Management for success/failure, and Logon Events for success/failure (plus numerous other things).
This time there is no Event 4740 for this account lockout and I can't figure out why. The events are there for other lockouts several minutes before or after this one. Windows just hates me so it decided to skip this one. The main reason
this is a problem is because I just set up Scheduled Task on the PDC Emulator, triggered by Event 4740, to run a PowerShell script that will provide the help desk with a report for each account lockout, even parsing the IIS logs on the Client Access Server
to identify which ActiveSync device caused it. Of course the week after I announce that, Windows decides not to log one.
Using LockoutStatus.exe I determined that the Origin DC for the lockout was the RADIUS server.
NetLogon debug logging is enabled on the RADIUS server, however I took a nap today after being let out of work early for the holiday so by the time I checked the netlogon.bak file it had already been overwritten with newer data.
There was, however, an Event 644 locked on the RADIUS server (pasted below with domain/computer/user details edited for privacy). I don't even know where to start as far as trying to prevent this from happening again. Anyone have any suggestions?
Within the next couple months I will spin up a 2012 RADIUS server and a separate 2008 R2 DC to replace the 2003 multipurpose server, but it's not high on my boss's priority list so it's a tough sell considering the WLAN is functional right now.
Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account Management
Event ID: 644
Date: 12/31/2014
Time: 10:00:35 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: DomainControllerAndRadiusServer
Description:
User Account Locked Out:
Target Account Name:
LockedOutUser
Target Account ID:
DOMAIN\LockedOutUser
Caller Machine Name:
CISCO
Caller User Name:
DomainControllerAndRadiusServer$
Caller Domain:
DOMAIN
Caller Logon ID:
(0x0,0x3E7)
For quite a while now I have been relying on Event 4740 on the PDC Emulator to track account lockouts. Usually when the RADIUS server causes an account lockout, the Caller Computer Name is blank in the
Event 4740. This usually tells me that our Cisco WLAN Controller caused the lockout.
For quite a while now I have been relying on Event 4740 on the PDC Emulator to track account lockouts. Usually when the RADIUS server causes an account lockout, the Caller Computer Name is blank in the
Event 4740. This usually tells me that our Cisco WLAN Controller caused the lockout.
For quite a while now I have been relying on Event 4740 on the PDC Emulator to track account lockouts. Usually when the RADIUS server causes an account lockout, the Caller Computer Name is blank in the
Event 4740. This usually tells me that our Cisco WLAN Controller caused the lockout.

Hi,
I suggest you use Auditpol command to check the current auditing status on Domain Controller.
You can type this command below:
Auditpol /get /Category:Logon/Logoff
If the Account Lockout subcategory is set to no auditing, please use /set option to enable auditing:
Auditpol /set /Subcategory:”Account Lockout” /Success:enable /Failure:enable
More information for you:
Auditpol
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731451.aspx
Best Regards,
Amy
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[SOLVED] Mouse Acting Up When Using Cinnamon In Non-Root Accounts

I have recently installed Arch linux on my computer, alongside Ubuntu and Windows. I installed cinnamon and xorg from the official repositories, and was happy with the experience. However, I wanted to transition from a root account to a normal user account, because certain software (e.g. Chrome) refuses to run under root. So, I created my user, home directory, and password, and was able to login. I copied my .xinitrc from my root home directory to my normal user accounts' home directory. The contents were this:
exec gnome-session-cinnamon
So, I type startx on the command line, expect everything to work normally, and I find that my mouse is not working properly:
1. I am unable to drag windows around
2. Applications with a scroll bar automatically scroll down to the bottom of page, and you can't scroll back up again
3. I cannot click anything on the sidebar of the cinnamon menu (which contains things like logoff and shutdown, so I had to kill the x server)
However, when logged in on root, none of this happens. At first, I thought this problem was due to me using a display manager (I used gdm and slim). This, however, is not the case. There isn't much out there on the internet for the problem I have, and I assume that this doesn't happen very often. What I did find, however, was to install the following packages:
sudo pacman -S xf86-input-evdev
sudo pacman -S xf86-input-mouse
The problem was still not fixed. I do not have an xorg.conf, but I do have a 50-vmmouse.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (I don't know if that's helpful, though):
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "vmmouse"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchTag "vmmouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
EndSection
Edit: I have a (I think) slightly more useful file: 10-evdev.conf in the same directory:
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Last edited by iandun (2013-07-26 13:42:05)

I have fixed it! After my mouse started automatically moving to the left side of the screen, even when logged in as root, I thought I would have to go back to Ubuntu, but I was able to read another forum thread about someone who was having the same issue (about the mouse moving left), and said that when he unplugged his joystick, everything worked. I realized that I had a joystick, so I unplugged mine and now everything is working like a charm!

Account Lockout source process / application

Hello There,
I am using "Account Lockout Status" and also "Netwrix Account Lockout Examiner" which is really helpful.
I have a situation one of the user account is getting locked out everyday i tried to trace the source but in all the cases it shows
the source as TMG (which is the gateway for email & lync access) through internet.
I am suspecting the account lockout source is the user's machine but i want to see which process is triggering this.
How can i check the process name which is causing account lockout on the source machine itself?
please suggest.
Regards,
Maqsood
Maqsood Mohammed Senior Systems Engineer MCITP-Enterprise Admin & ITILv3 Foundation Certified

1. Run this command:
rundll32 keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr
2. Backup the stored credentials using the Backup button. Then, remove them.
If the problem continues, we need to enable audit policies and analyze event log to troubleshoot this problem. For more information,
please refer to:
Troubleshooting Account Lockout
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773155(WS.10).aspx
Account Lockout and Management Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=18465
Hope below link helps.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/8c0e9442-6df6-43b0-8b50-bd44f53dfdea/my-account-is-getting-locked-out?forum=winserversecurity
Regards,
Manjunath Sullad

Root Account

I need serious help!!! I am a new mac user...I've had my computer for less than a year and I just found out after not being able to log into my root account that you shouldnt use it for everyday usage and I have and now I can't log into it. How do I get this fixed??

Assuming you have the CD/DVD which came with the Mac, boot from it (insert disk, restart, hold down "C" key until booting process clearly underway), choose your language, then look in the menu above for "change password." That will let you change any users' passwords.
Now, it is possible to prevent this, but if you bought the Mac yourself and don't use it in a corporate/school setting, it is probably still possible. It's a power-user thing to set it that way.

Oracle Access Manager 11gR2 Account Lockout URL

I have question on OAM and OIM Integration LOCKOUT URL.
Oracle 11gR2 documentation used is Introduction - 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0)
Section 1.5.3.5 Account Lock and Unlock refers to account lockout url
4. The user's unsuccessful login attempts exceed the limit specified by the policy. Access Manager locks the user account and redirects the user to the Access Manager Account Lockout URL, which displays help desk contact information.
Where can we setup Access Manager Account Lockout URL in 11gR2?

Try specifying Account Lockout URL in oam-config.xml "AccountLockedURL" attribute. I am not sure what exact values should be set for other attributes mentioned in oam-config.xml (password policy related section) as some of them are related to OIM-OAM integration. Do you plan to integrate OIM-OAM in your environment

How to unlock Root Account in non-global zone on Solaris 10 Branded Zone

Hello All,
I have a phsical x86 server running Solaris 11. On top of that, I have 3 Solaris 10 branded zones configured. Due to security policy the root account has been locked by 5 failed login attempts.
Is there a way by which I can unlock root account in non-global zone.
I have the root access of global zone.
Pls help as these are production servers.
Regards

Hey,
It worked. Actually i forgot to save the file.
I changed the /<zonepath>/root/etc/shadow
Removed *LK* & then from global zone did zlogin -l root zonename
Thanks lot.

Need to find out which application is making an frequent account lockout in AD

Hi ,
In my environment two of the user accounts are having an frequent account lockout.
We have found that the account lockout was happening in their own machines with the help of the event logs in the domain controllers.
Please tell us how do we find that which application on their machines are making an frequent account lock with the help of event logs else do we have some other options.
All of your suggestions are much appreciated.
Thanks & Regards S.Nithyanandham

Usage of Microsoft ALtools( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18465 ):
LockoutStatus application
 Run LockoutStatus.exe and choose File > Set target > Define “Target User Name”
and “Target Domain Name”
Tool will show you user with its “User State” (Locked/Not Locked), time when
account was locked (Lockout Time) and will allow you to Unlock Account if you
right click output string.
EventCombMT application
 This tool gathers specific events from Windows event logs of single or several
different servers to one central location.
 Run EventCombMT.exe > Right Click on “Select to search” field >Choose “Get DCs
in Domain” > Mark your Domain Controllers for search> Select “Security” log file >
Type “4740” in the “Event IDs” field > Choose “Success Audit” Event type > Click
“Search” > Wait for “Matching Events Found” counter to show some values and
click “Quit”
 In the opened window investigate file or files named by your domain controllers
names. You should be able to determine the originating system where lockout
happened by searching for “Caller Computer Name”
Aloinfo application
 This tool has 2 purposes:
 To display all user account names and the age of their passwords run cmd >
change directory to the one where ALtools were extracted > type @powershell >
Enter > type “./aloinfo.exe /expires /server:DC | out-file C:\temp\expires.txt” >
Enter
 To display credentials used for running services or for mapping network drives
run cmd > change directory to the one where ALtools were extracted > type
@powershell > Enter > type “./aloinfo.exe /stored | out-file C:\temp\stored.txt” >
Enter
You may also enable Netlogon logging on DC through command shell:
nltest /dbflag:2080ffff
Netlogon.txt file is created in %systemroot%/debug directory
Just don't forget to turn it off after investigation :) nltest /dbflag:0
Or you can use
Netwrix Account Lockout Examiner to troubleshoot account lockouts, it's free.
--- Jeff (Netwrix)

ISE Guest Account Lockout

Hi,
I would like to disable account lockout for ISE Guest accounts resulting from login failures. In the ISE, there is a setting for Maximum Number of Login Attempts (with values from 1-9) in:
        Administration>Guest Management>Settings>Guest>Portal Policy
Can someone tell me where or how account lockout can be turned off for Guest accounts in the local database of the ISE/WLC.
Many thanks.
Sankung

Answer: No, yet there is not way to completely desable this feature in Cisco ISE
ref: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ise/1.1/user_guide/ise_guest_pol.html#wp1070066

Is it best practice to use account lockout policy

Windows Server 2008 r2 (will be moving to 2012 r2)
since implementing account lockout policy two days ago, we've been bombarded by calls to unlock accounts. and after a few minutes, same users get their accounts locked again.
my question, since we are already using strong password policy (8 chars min, 90 days max to expire), at this day and age is it still best practice to rely on account lockout policy? keeping in mind the above flood of calls.

since implementing account lockout policy two days ago, we've been bombarded by calls to unlock accounts. and after a few minutes, same users get their accounts locked again.
my question, since we are already using strong password policy (8 chars min, 90 days max to expire), at this day and age is it still best practice to rely on account lockout policy? keeping in mind the above flood of calls.
account lockout is generally considered un-necessary if you have implemented a very strong password complexity/history policy.
There are many discussions on the topic of password/passphrase "strength", and it's important to consider the various factors involved, and, how they affect your organisation's view of "security".
I would say that 8 chars is not very strong. You should also consider if password aging/expiry is a useful control at all.
Since this forum is related to Group Policy, and, password/security is really quite a separate topic, you should consider the DS forum or the security forum, or separate research or consulting services, to get a broad understanding of the things to consider
for your particular requirements/scenario.
Other considerations include any security standards which can be useful reading to understand the nature of the topic (e.g. PCI DSS, HIPAA, FIPS, etc)
Don
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