I have a user whose account was locked because of preauthentication failure
and his failure code was 0x18 which is normally a bad password. What does bad
password mean? Does it mean wrong password. Moreover my user's account was
locked when he was already log on to his machine. His pc did not save any
other user password under user management. Pls advise why his account was
locked, thks in advance.

Hello inenewbl,

Check your domain password policy on the domain level. Here are all options
configured how passwords and lockouts etc. are handled. The account locks
because of wrong typed passwords and in your policy is defined how often
it is allowed before locking it.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I have a user whose account was locked because of preauthentication
> failure and his failure code was 0x18 which is normally a bad
> password. What does bad password mean? Does it mean wrong password.
> Moreover my user's account was locked when he was already log on to
> his machine. His pc did not save any other user password under user
> management. Pls advise why his account was locked, thks in advance.
>