You can use the CHECK_POLICY & CHECK_EXPIRATION optional clauses when creating or altering a login. For example: If you had the user ‘sa’, that can only alter ‘sa’ : alter login sa with check_policy = off — Will fail CREATE LOGIN [noPwdPolicy] WITH PASSWORD = ‘weak’ go — Will succeed CREATE LOGIN [noPwdPolicy] WITH PASSWORD = ‘weak’, CHECK_POLICY = OFF go See Also : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189828.aspx _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ALTER LOGIN login_name { … Continue reading
1) Start – Run – Regedit Navigate to the following Registry key: HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop Double click on the AutoEndTasks entry and replace the 0 with a 1 in the Value data text box For the next two, if the dword value indicated does not exist, create it: Double click on the WaitToKillAppTimeout entry … Continue reading