Thread: Managing Window user accounts

Window user accounts are one of the basic tool for managing a window server. There are two types of window user accounts Local account and Domain account. A Local account is a user account that store on a particular computer and applies only to that particular computer. On the other hand a Domain account is a user account that stored by active directory and can be access from any computer that's a part of that domain because domain account is centrally managed.



There are three basic properties for user account:

• User name:

A unique hame that identify the account.
The user must enter the user name when logging on to the network. The user name is the public information.

• Password:

A secret word that must be entered in order to gain access to the account. You can set the windows so that it enforces the password policies, such as the minimum length of the password, whether the password must contain a mixture of letters and numerals, and how long the password remains current before the user must change it.

• Group membership:

It indicates which group or groups to which the user account belongs. Group membership are the key to granting access rights to
users so that they can access various network