Blank Password Policy Problem
Oct 2, 2006
Hi all,
We recently started to receive complaints about our install project not
working and giving and shitload of error messages related to SQL. We
later found out that the problem was the users we were trying to bind
to we're not created because of the domain password policy feature
implemented into SQL Server 2005.
After much dabbling around the SQL scripts that created the database
structure, we came to the conclusion that only this piece of code could
correct our problem :
CREATE LOGIN mynewuser WITH PASSWORD = '', CHECK_POLICY = OFF,
CHECK_EXPIRATION = OFF
This runs perfectly fine on SQL2005, but not on SQL2000. We have been
searching for a way to have code in SQL files executed on install that
doesn't fail to compile when run against the server and that will
bypass the password policy in case it's a SQL Server 2005...
Right now we are testing a feature available in MSI that can filter
scripts not matching a database version, but the problem with this, is
that we are missing a lot of features that InstallShield has. In short,
we need Help to fix this issue and be able to continue with
development.
In hopes to receive a a prompt anwser
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Feb 6, 2006
I've legacy code that requires a blank password for a SQL Server login.
This works fine on 2000 or 7.
How can you allow blank passwords on SQL Server 2005 without changing the windows policy?
Is there a stored procedure to do this?
I know you can now use CREATE LOGIN and set CHECK_POLICY to no on SQL 2005 when creating logins, but this needs to run on SQL Server 7/2000 and so its using sp_addlogin.
(NB: I can't easily change the legacy code to work conditionally on SQL Server 2005)
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Jun 18, 2007
I am receiving the following error message when attempting to create a new SQL Authenticated login id.
Password validation failed. The password does not meet the requirements of the password filter DLL. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15119)
I have four servers all running SQL Server 2005 SP2 on Windows 2003 Ent. SP1. Of the four servers, only one received the above error message using the same TSQL below.
CREATE LOGIN TEST_LOGIN WITH PASSWORD = 'pvif9dal' MUST_CHANGE, CHECK_EXPIRATION = ON
All four servers are in the same domain, which if I understand correctly, the password policies are therefore inherited at the OS level by the domain. The password being used is within the password policies of the domain.
Any ideas as to a root cause?
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Jun 30, 2007
I tried to install an ALLDATA database which run with SQL Server 2005 express edition. The data base fails to install becase of the following code that come up which is related to AS password requirement. The error that come up is:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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The sa password must meet SQL Server password policy requirements. For strong password guidelines, see Authentication Mode, in SQL Server Books Online.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.2047.00&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=28001&EvtType=sqlca%5csqlcax.cpp%40SAPasswordPolicyCheck%40SAPasswordPolicyCheck%40x6d61
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BUTTONS:
&Retry
Cancel
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I am trying to install this database in a network server operating under Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please let me.
Thanks,
Amilcar
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Feb 18, 2008
I'm trying to add the following user to my test enviroment using the following command:-
EXEC sp_addlogin OPICS, MASTER123456, OPXNEX
However, I'm getting the following error:-
Password validation failed. The password does not meet Windows policy requirements because it is not complex enough.
How can I disable Enforce password policy?
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Mar 13, 2006
We run a few shared hosting servers in the UK, now we used to run mssql 2000 and moved to 2005 in december 2005.
Microsoft SQL 2005 9.00.1399.06
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.1399.00
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 2005.090.1399.00
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2000.086.1830.00 (srv03_sp1_rtm.050324-1447)
Microsoft MSXML 2.6 3.0 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.3790.1830
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.42
Operating System 5.2.3790
We were in the process of improving security on some of our new servers, in the windows password policies settings we enabled the following
minimum password length = 6 characters
Password must meet complexity requirments = enabled
sql 2005 authentification was set in mixed mode, but we have tried windows authentification only as well.
Now when you try and add a new user even if the password meets all requirments you get an error password is to short etc, we used sql managment studio both manually creating a user and scripting with sql, both with the same result.
In the shared hosting environment we need passwords to be secure, the only way we can get sql users to be created is to disable windows password policies which causes security problems.
We would prefer to use sql authentification not windows but even when we use sql authent it still seems to use the windows password policy and the same error occurs
has anyone else found this problem?
could do with a fix asap!
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May 30, 2007
Hi!
I am installing SQL Server 2005 Express as part of my setup. On Windows 2003 Servers with password policy enabled, the SQL Server 2005 Express installation fails. Here is the error I am getting - "the sa password must meet SQL Server password policy requirements. For strong password guidelines, see Authentication Mode, in SQL Server Books Online.". If I disable the password policy, the SQL Server 2005 Express installation is OK.
Is there a parameter that I can pass to the command line to get around this?
Thanks!
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Mar 20, 2007
I have a 3 node cluster running windows 2003 x64 sp1 and SQL Server 2005 version 9.00.2153. My problem is the following...
This Saturday I migrated a web application's database to this server. After restoring the database I created the sql login for the service account, set the password and disabled the password policy for this login. I then ran sp_change_users_login to attach the already existing db user with the same name to the login. I changed the connection string for the application, tested the application connectivity and functionality then detatched the old database on the old server. Everything went like clockwork, no problems at all.
Come Monday morning at 8:35 I started getting alerts that the web site was down. I tested the site and sure enough it was down. I then attempted to connect to the database server using the login that was created for the app and the connection failed. I logged in with my ID and got in fine. Nothing showing to be wrong with the DB, I checked the new login and somehow the "Enable Password Policy" had been set for the new login. I disabled it and still no connection. I went to the database and checked the DB user and somehow the link between it and the login no longer existed. I reran the sp_change_users_login and restested the web site and verified that that web site was back online.
My question is this, is there any stored proc that resets these values back to default for some reason, a series of events that might revert the "Enable Password Policiy" to the default for a login, or is there a particular domain level operation that might occur such as Security Polcies that would affect these settings in SQL?
No one else was on the machine when I went to check it out at 8:40 so it has left me puzzled.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Zach
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Oct 4, 2006
What are the exact requirements implied by the sql 2005 option:
"Password Must Meet Complexity Requirements "
TIA,
Barkingdog
P.S. I found this one:
-Cannot contain all or part of the username
-Must be at least 6 characters long
-Contain 3 of the 4 following character groups
- A to Z
- a to z
- 0 to 9
- Special Characters i.e. ! ^ $ *
and I have also found
"At least 7 characters in length"
Combines letters. numbners, and symbolds
Is not a dicitonary word, name of a command, person's name or user's account name
As the saying goes "close, but no cigar!"
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Nov 4, 2004
Hi,
did anybody tri force password policy by modifing
sp_addlogin
and
sp_password
Raising custom error if password to be inserted or cnanged does not meet company policy.
Why microsoft did not add this condition in code?
Thank you
Alex
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Feb 19, 2007
I have modified the Security Settings>Account Policies>Password Policy on my PC as follows:
Minimum password length: 10 characters
Password must meet complexity requirements: Enabled
However, when creating a login within SQL Server 2005, which does not adhere to the amended policy, this does not seem to be taken into account:
CREATE LOGIN testlogin WITH PASSWORD='a',
DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master],
DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[us_english],
CHECK_EXPIRATION=ON, CHECK_POLICY=ON
have tried restarting the SQL Server and rebooting the PC, but this does not solve the problem.
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May 22, 2008
Hello,
I am building a winforms .net 3.5 application which connects to a SQL Server 2005 database with SQL server authentication. Is it possible to access the SQL Server password policy and expiration through the .NET 3.5 framework? I would like add the following functionality to my login form:
Ensure passwords meet policy standard.
Prompt a user to change their password when it is due to expire in 5 days or less.
Thanks in advance.
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Jul 12, 2007
I am trying to create a login using my application.
The application creates the user and password itself .
when working with sql server 2000 it works fine.
when i try to install my application with sql server 2005 it is displaying the error .
'Password does not meet windows policy requirements
because it is not complex enough'
I want to keep the same password.
Is there any way to disable/uncheck this option by default?
Prashant
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Jun 20, 2006
Is there a way to do this at the server level?
Thanks
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Jul 19, 2007
Is there any way to check whether the password for existing sql authentication login is blank? (except trying to connect)
Where can I find information about how the passwords are stored internally in SQL Server?
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Jun 12, 2007
I have a complicated question that involves the password policy defined within Windows Server 2003 and how it is used in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I recently installed windows server 2003 on my development system. I am a person that prefers to develop in the same OS that our application runs in production. After installing 2003, then a Domain administrator added my machine to our corporate domain. Now, I cannot change the local password policy to allow a simple password. I believe this is due to policy inheriting from the domain that the machine belongs to.
This ties back into SQL Server 2005 because installing sql server on a Server 2003 causes SQL Server 2005 to follow the password policies defined at the OS level. This breaks our application in a subtle way in that we create login accounts for new client databases with random password. Because the password is random it sometimes conforms to the policy and sometimes not.
In production environments, the password policies are configured differently. So I need to one of the following options:
-change the group policy/inherited policy on my machine to not inherity from the domain I joined (prefered solution but don't know HOW)
-change SQL Server to not use OS password policy
-change code to use CREATE LOGIN statement with CHECK_POLICY=OFF or change password generation code to use a stronger password. (don't want to do this as the code change is only accomodating non-production environments)
If someone has a better place to post this question, I would sure appreciate it.
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Dec 20, 2006
Is there a script or table that I can check to find out if there are any users who have BLANK passwords?
thanks
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Jun 24, 2006
Hi, I need blank password for user "sa" when I instaling SQL 2005 Express from command line. SAPWD=<strong password> --> SAPWD=<blank password> ?????
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Oct 31, 2007
Hi everyone ,
i am trying to find logins which has blank password in SQL2000 . i wrote cursor to find these logins. But i cannot catch the logins.Beacuse sp_password sistem procedure does not return @@ERROR.
I can easily do it with SQL2005 (BEGIN -TRY -CATCH).
How can i catch sp_password error in SQL Server 2000??
or are there any suggestions to find these logins.
How can i find blank password logins in SQL2000???
sp_password '','','loginname'
select @@error ''' it is always ZERO
Declare @sql as varchar(255)
Declare @login as varchar(50)
Declare Cur_Login CURSOR scroll FOR
Select name from syslogins where isntuser=0
open Cur_Login
fetch next from Cur_Login INTO @Login
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
set @sql = 'sp_password '''','''',''@login'' '
set @sql = replace(@sql ,'@login',@login)
exec (@sql)
if @@ERROR <> 0
print 'Password is not blank'
fetch next from Cur_Login INTO @Login
end
close Cur_Login
deallocate Cur_Login
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Apr 29, 2008
Hi,
I receive blanks for a column called value and i need to represent it as a blank or NA into a colum whose datatype is float in the datawarehouse.
how is this possible because in current schenario a blank is being converted to 0
which is not the right thing.
i would like to retain the blank in conversion from char to float ,
please explain me if it can be done or how to overcome this issue.
Thanks
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Can it possible of taking full dump db backup of Logshipping server [Secondary Server.]
Or any other way {DTS} on Secondary server, to update third server on daily basis.
please co-operate me on this issue
Thanx in advance
Regards
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May 23, 2007
What is the best way to disable using the Windows policy requirements when creating a new login?
example: I'm trying to create a login and the password doesn't meet the windows policy requirements. The easy thing to do would be to create a strong password. This isn't an option at the moment. I need to disable this so I can create new users that dont have strong passwords.
Thanks!
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Feb 12, 2008
hi,
Please help me in designing one of our payroll policies. i have been trying but unable to find any solution.
i have data in 2 tables :
1. attendance (empid, date, hours, leaveallowed)
2. holidays (date,type) (4 types of holidays like national, weekly offs etc)
Policy: if any employee is not present on both days - the day before and after the holiday then leave allowed is false
attendace table contains the records for all employees who are present and i have to add rows for missing dates where leaveallowed will be false (hours will be zero).
eg. if any employee is absent on friday and monday then leaveallowed for saturday and sunday will be false.
i have tried many things but the best i have is following query that uses cross join with holidays table after adding rows for all dates in holidays (holidays table now looks as calendar)
Code:
SELECT DRVD.empid,DRVD.calendardate,DRVD.holidaytype,
attendance.workhours
FROM attendance RIGHT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT * FROM employees CROSS JOIN calendar
WHERE calendardate < getdate()) DRVD
ON attendance.empid=DRVD.empid
AND attendance.workdate=DRVD.calendardate
thanks
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Feb 12, 2014
I have policy and commission table. There are up to 3 levels of commission for each policy and i want to select all commission in a row by policy id
for eg :
select policy.policyid,commission.amount,commission.level
from policy
inner join commission
on commission.policyid = policy.policyid
Result
Policyid Commission level
50470 9.056839 2
50470 31.011067 3
50470 7.185093 0
23355 6.8347 0
23355 76.989 2
But i want to display like below
policyid level0 level2 level3
50470 7.185093 9.05683931.011067
23355 6.834776.989
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Sep 10, 2006
Hello all,
Recently, we ran into the issue that you can't do an insert into..exec statement on a loopback linked server that was previously commented on in:
http://www.dbnewsgroups.net/link.aspx?url=http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=124137&SiteID=1
So, for example, if you have a linkedserver to a database that happens to be on the same server as the querying thread, it fails with the message 'context in use'.
The answer from the previous thread was, don't use linked servers when the database is on the same server.
However,
The enviornment in our production system is fairly dynamic -- operations can be expected to move databases around in response to load balancing issues. We were counting on linked servers to make certain (non-performance sensitive) queries without regard to where a given database was located. Accepting that we have to make an exception case where the database lives on the same server means we'll have to have two sets of queries for every case this happens.
Something like
(pseudocode)
If server of linkedserver <> @@server
Insert into table....
Exec linkedserver.database.dbo.sproc
Else
Insert Into Table
exec database.dbo.sproc
(end pseudocode)
This seems pretty kludgy to me -- any suggestions on how to better manage this situation?
Thanks in advance
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Does the Energy Policy Act of 2005 affect SQL Server 2005 and SQL server 2000 running on windows 2003 sp1 and windows 2000 sp4 respectively...
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Sep 25, 2007
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Apr 1, 2008
I have a package protected by a password - I am already unhappy that to get it to use the configuration file to change connection strings for the production servers I have had to hardcode the password into the config file - very insecure!
However, the package now deploys correctly to the production server and will run from there OK, but NOT if scheduled as a SQL Server Agent Job. Thus is because however often I edit the command line to include the password after the DECRYPT switch (which it has prompted me for when I click on the command line tab), the Job Step will not retain it.
If I open it up after I have edited it and closed it, the password has disappeared.
I know that if I run dtexec plus the code in the Command Line tab (with the password), the package runs OK.
This is driving me insane!
I have read all the other posts and so I tried replacing the SSIS package step with a CmdExec step and pasting that code into there - then I get an OLEDB error..
The code I use is:
DTEXEC /SQL "ImportRateMonitoringTables" /SERVER servername /DECRYPT password /CONFIGFILE "D:Microsoft SQL ServerSSISDeploymentsRateMonitoringImportTasksDeploymentImportRateMonitoringTables_Production.dtsConfig" /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF /REPORTING E
and I get
SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x8000FFFF
although the same code executes perfectly from a command prompt.
Please does anyone have any experience with a similar problem and if so, how did you get round it?
Thank you
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AppDomain 446 (A.dbo[runtime].477) unloaded.
AppDomain 446 (A.dbo[runtime].477) is marked for unload due to memory pressure.
Error: 6532, Severity: 16, State: 48.
.NET Framework execution was aborted by escalation policy because of out of memory.
Im getting this problem on server A? when I restore a backup that is located on a drive on server A? to server B?. The drive isnt actually on server A? it is on an EMC but is mapped to server A?. So, I guess server A? is acting as a file server for the file.
Server A? is an x64 bit server with 32 GB of Ram. It has SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition build 9.00.3042.00. Min Memory is set to 2 GB and Max is set to 28 GB. SQL service is running under a windows account with Lock pages in Memory? set.
From what Ive read this was a problem but I thought SP2 fixed it.
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Jun 22, 2007
Using SQL Server 2005 SP2 std edition on Windows 2003 R2 SP2 x64 std edition I'm allowed to break the password policy.
To reproduce this behaviour as a system administrator run...
create login testuser with password='p'
This creates a login with the default of POLICY enabled ('Enforce Password Policy' check box is checked). OK, so may be system administrator is allowed to break the policy but now login as testuser and run
alter login testuser with password='t' old_password='p'
This succeeds despite obviously breaking the policy.
Surely this can't be right, I must be doing something wrong.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tim Gordon-Jones
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