[Issue]: Can't login into windows about windows

[iamarpitpatidar]

@kroese it worked thanks

[kroese]

I never seen this error before, but from a quick Google search, it seems that this will happen if there were too many failed attempts to enter the password?

Can you remember doing anything like that?

[iamarpitpatidar]

@kroese Actually that's the thing, it doesn't have a password set I used the container as it is, it was working for the past few days (less that 30) now its just showing this error

[kroese]

Very strange!! There is also a (hidden) Administrator account which has the password: "password". So if you can login to that one, then you can reset the password for Docker from there.

[iamarpitpatidar]

@kroese any ideas how do I login to different acct coz its not allowing me to change user

[kroese]

Normally when you connect via RDP, you can specify the username and password.

Anyway, according to this article: https://mangohost.net/blog/fixing-the-referenced-account-is-currently-locked-out-error-in-windows-10/ the default timeout for this lockout is 30 minutes. So it should have fixed itself by now. Can you check if the error disappeared?

[iamarpitpatidar]

@kroese

1. I've tried rdp but it's not working throwing the same error.
2. And no even after this much time it still not working..

is there a way to edit local group policy, we can entirely disable login throttle ?

I can get into the admin command prompt using troubleshoot even tried registry editor it works just not sure how to edit local gp policy.

[kroese]

@iamarpitpatidar I think you can go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteAccess\Parameters\AccountLockout

and there you can change MaxDenials and the lockout timeout values.

[kroese]

Also see https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/87609-change-account-lockout-threshold-local-accounts-windows-10-a.html

[iamarpitpatidar]

Lemme try this.