XP/2K/2003: View account policies

Contributed by qmchenry

August 29, 2004

Tagged: Windows security

The net command provides an easy way to view and set account policies from the command line.

To view the current account policy settings, run the command net account from a command window. The output will look something like this:

Force user logoff how long after time expires?: Never Minimum password age (days): 30 Maximum password age (days): 90 Minimum password length: 8 Length of password history maintained: 3 Lockout threshold: Never Lockout duration (minutes): 60 Lockout observation window (minutes): 30 Computer role: WORKSTATION The command completed successfully.

The account policies for the domain can be viewed by running:

net account /domain

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