How to enforce the user to change their password via password policy within a period on gpeditor.msc without using domain

Question

For testing purpose, I tried to enforce a user to change his windows login password every 2 days by altering the setting the password policy on gpeditor.msc locally, without using the domain setting, but unsuccessful. Please advise why. Thank you!

anna

Answer 1

Hello

It seems that you have already tried to change the password policy setting on gpeditor.msc locally without success. Another way to force a user to change their Windows login password periodically is by using the Command Prompt. Here are the steps:

1.Open Start, search for Command Prompt, right-click the result and select Run as administrator.

2.Type the following command to enable password expiration and press Enter:

wmic UserAccount set PasswordExpires=True

3.Type the following command to set the number of days a password can be used before Windows requires users to change it and press Enter:

net accounts /maxpwage:2

This will set the maximum password age to 2 days, after which the user will be prompted to change their password.

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