Hi All,

I am going into a zero security situation next
week. I am going to have manually turn off

--> Control Panel
--> Local Security Settings
--> Security Options - Accounts
--> Limit local account use of blank
passwords to console login only


So anyone can log into anyone without a password.

Can anyone tell which registry key and value "off"
corresponds to so I can just load a registry key?
(It would save a lot of time if I could just write my
own .reg file to turn off "blank passwords to console
login only.")

Many thanks,
--Tony

Take a look at this registry key which may disable it I believe when set to
zero as shown.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa\limitblankpassworduse:
0x00000000

I use a free program called Regshot to do comparisons of the registry before
and after such a change. There are other programs that may be a bit easier
to use but for the price and the fact that it does not have to be installed
make Regshot a neat utility to have.--- Steve

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regshot.html --- Regshot.

"Tony" <Tony@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:dndl31$osc$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
> Hi All,
>
> I am going into a zero security situation next
> week. I am going to have manually turn off
>
> --> Control Panel
> --> Local Security Settings
> --> Security Options - Accounts
> --> Limit local account use of blank
> passwords to console login only
>
>
> So anyone can log into anyone without a password.
>
> Can anyone tell which registry key and value "off"
> corresponds to so I can just load a registry key?
> (It would save a lot of time if I could just write my
> own .reg file to turn off "blank passwords to console
> login only.")
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony

Thank you!! I will download regshot shortly. :-)

--Tony

Steven L Umbach wrote:
> Take a look at this registry key which may disable it I believe when set to
> zero as shown.
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa\limitblankpassworduse:
> 0x00000000
>
> I use a free program called Regshot to do comparisons of the registry before
> and after such a change. There are other programs that may be a bit easier
> to use but for the price and the fact that it does not have to be installed
> make Regshot a neat utility to have.--- Steve
>
> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regshot.html --- Regshot.
>
> "Tony" <Tony@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:dndl31$osc$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I am going into a zero security situation next
>>week. I am going to have manually turn off
>>
>> --> Control Panel
>> --> Local Security Settings
>> --> Security Options - Accounts
>> --> Limit local account use of blank
>> passwords to console login only
>>
>>
>>So anyone can log into anyone without a password.
>>
>>Can anyone tell which registry key and value "off"
>>corresponds to so I can just load a registry key?
>>(It would save a lot of time if I could just write my
>>own .reg file to turn off "blank passwords to console
>>login only.")
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>--Tony
>
>
>

http://www.theeldergeek.com gives the registry entries for most of these
items.