Re: Password change - Where does it occur?

Kevin Bowersock

Password changes are handled by the server that logged you on and then
"pushed" to the PDC emulator FSMO role holder

There is some good info on this in:

232690 Urgent Replication Triggers in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=232690

225511 New Password Change and Conflict Resolution Functionality in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=225511

a-Kbower@online.microsoft.com

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| From: "Brian Desmond [MVP]"
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| Subject: Re: Password change - Where does it occur?
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| Dave-
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| The change takes place on the server that authenticated the user. (I'm 99%
| sure about this).
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| "Dave H" wrote in message
| news:3BB99A08-AE5B-4A81-B5B1-808A288BD2E7@microsoft.com...
| > If a user goes to change their password, where does this pw change take
| place? By this, I mean does the pw change take place on the server which
| authenticated them, or the first server in the site, or is there a
| progression?
| >
| > Dave
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