{"id":2837,"date":"2013-07-22T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T07:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2013-07-22T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T07:37:51","slug":"account-lockout-policy-not-working-for-new-sign-in-options-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/account-lockout-policy-not-working-for-new-sign-in-options-in-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Account Lockout Policy Not Working for New Sign-in Options in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the changes in Windows 8 that draws the most attention is the sign-in options. Windows 8 allows you to log on using Microsoft account, four-digit PIN and picture password, as alternate sign-in options for conventional text password. However, I discover that the Account Lockout policy is not working for the new sign-in options.<\/p>\n

I set the number of logon attempts before locking the system, and specify the Account Lockout duration using the Local Security Policy Editor in Windows 8.<\/p>\n

\"account-lockout\"<\/p>\n

After enabling the account lockout policy, restart the system. When it boots to the Windows 8 logon screen, I try several wrong passwords with my Microsoft account intentionally, Windows keeps saying password is incorrect but never lock my Microsoft account, and I can then immediately log into the system using a correct password. The same thing happens with PIN code and picture password.<\/p>\n

I think this is a great security hole or bug with Windows 8 operating system. Account Lockout policy is designed to disable a user account if an incorrect password is entered a specified number of times over a specified period. It help you to prevent attackers from guessing users’ passwords, and they decrease the likelihood of successful attacks on your network.<\/p>\n

So I think it’s more secure to use a traditional text password than using the new sign-in options: Microsoft account, four-digit PIN and picture password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the changes in Windows 8 that draws the most attention is the sign-in options. Windows 8 allows you to log on using Microsoft account, four-digit PIN and picture password, as alternate sign-in options for conventional text password. However, I discover that the Account Lockout policy is not working for the new sign-in options. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[219,40,1464],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-windows-8","tag-account-lockout-policy","tag-windows-8-2","tag-windows-8-sign-in-optioins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}