How do people deal with users passwords expiring when their user account is what authenticates to WIFI?
A user takes a laptop out of the office and their domain user password expires while they are logging in with cached expired credentials.
They bring the laptop back to the office days later, the laptop connects to WIFI with the old password and promptly locks out their user domain account and they have to plug in the laptop to a hard wire to get their cached credentials synced with the network.
Doesn't even a computer account password expire every 30 days and would cause the same expired password issue if the WIFI was set up for computer-only authentication?
To get around this, we manually set up laptop WIFI authentication with a dedicated user account that has a non-expiring password instead of having the WIFI use their Windows login. This is also a lot of work because there is no way to specify the dedicated user name and password via Group Policy, so it has to be typed into each laptop by hand by an IT tech.
Is there a better/easier way to do this that will not lock out the user accounts when they bring laptops in that have cached expired passwords?