My thoughts about this are: If the password is older than 90 days (@PWAGE > 90) AND @RAS = 0 --> change password. But how can I popup the Change password window? I use Win2k.

Martijn

Unfortunately, on NT/2K, you need to do CTL-ALT-DEL (not do-able in KiX) to bring up the Change Password dialog. I don't know of an API that you can call to bring up the same dialog.

The best I can suggest is a nag screen warning them that if ignored, there are no second chances.

I downloaded the tool already, and it's doing what I want. THe problem is that you can see what password someone is typing. So what I'm trying to do is to write a little VB-app with 3 textfields: One for the old pwd and 2 for the new pwd. If the old pwd is correct and the last two are identical, the strings are parsed to the Kix-script and then the pwd is chenged. But I'm not yet ready with it. If so, I'll post it.

Another way to do this is to write a VB-app that writes the strings into the Registry and then read it out with Kix. After the password has changed, the values are deleted.
It's a little tricky this way because it's readable for everyone in the Registry, but that seems the easiest solution.

Martijn

If your going the extra mile to write a custom VB application for this, might I suggest you "map" the NetUserChangePassword API within your VB program and simply call it from there ... that way you can check PWAGE from within your script ... then call your VB app to change the password and be done with it. Then there will be no need to pass info through the registry back to your script - then to a command-line util ...

See the changepass.zip sourcecode for API specifics ...

-Shawn

My opinion too. I didn't knew that this API exists, but this is the way I want it.

Thanks for the tips!

Martijn