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Limiting rights to a second administrator account
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:35:26 -0600, "Steve Sheldon" <use...@sodablue.org> wrote: Any given semi-large company of about 1000 employees probably has 50 of whom know the password for the local administrator account of the desktops. If the domain is set up reasonably they should only know their own password.

Disable administrator account
Corey Tracey trac...@sutterhealth.org microsoft public windowsnt domain do you remember any user account that was in the local admin account? if so, I am unable to login to an NT4 WS with its local Administrator password. This password was never changed on the local PC. The PC was added to a domain.

Local administrator account password
Another possibility is to disable the built in admin account [XP Pro/W2003] or giving it a really long complex password for W2K and then issue those users that need local administrator account access smart cards. Smart cards are not all that expensive and fairly easy to configure. Don't underestimate social

Win 2000 and accounts
Since EFS is tied to the user account, EFS is compromised if the account password is compromised. If the computer is not in a domain and syskey encryption is at the default setting, the local administrator account in the SAM file can be manipulated to allow an intruder with physical access to the computer to reset

Help! Don't have local NT Administrator password!
But that doesn't ask for account/password, etc. Any thoughts? Thanks. -Parhez Bjorn Landemoo wrote: Parhez You will be asked for an account and a password Therefore, when the job was launched by WinAT under, the local "administrator" account's security context, it could not access the datafiles on the network

Automatic Samba Machine Account created for NT2K and Xp clients
I change the password back to the old password and it seems to work fine. Does anyone know why? What am I doing wrong? It sounds like you've make the local administrator account the Exchange Site Service Account. And it isn't what you're _doing_ wrong, it's what you DID wrong when you installed Exchange.

Changing local Administrator account password
Then I set again administrator password to blank - and Exchange services started! What was that? What, or why? The "why" is because the people that installed the Exchange server made the local Administrator account the Exchange Site Service Account -- a mistake (and a common one). I have Exchange service account on

Admin accounts?
Enumerate the local admin accounts' name 2. Rename the account 3. Sets the password. Hi An option is to use the freeware utility BuiltIn.exe by Marty List. <quote> BuiltIn Account Manager [Version 1.10] Displays or manages the builtin Administrator or Guest account, without knowing what the current name is.

Local Admin rights to Domain user via script
Have you tried using the the local Administrator? Also do you have another user with Domain admin rights? -----Original Message----- this morning I set the domain group policy "Rename Administrator Account" to "Disabled" to fix a problem. should have no effect on anything. then, because of a different problem,

Unable to connect from win98 machine as administrator to the ...
Miha Pihler miha.pih...@Atlantis-N0Spam.si microsoft public windowsxp security_admin Hi Shane, Windows XP Recovery console is current local administrator password. So if you change the local admin password also recovery console password changes. You probably mixed this with Active Directory restore mode.

Set user account password
If you changed the Domain administrator account password, you could signon to the machine as the domain admin, and use the local user manager to change the local administrator account password. As far as I know there is no other way, if there was it would be considered a security hazard. Besides re-installing the

User Accounts
A user could also log onto the local computer possiably as a local administrator/power user depending on what they need or are allowed to do with the laptop The important thing for sharing files/printers with the other computers in a non domain is to have the same exact user account/password configured on the

Local Administrators group
JB43 J...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public sms admin We have a few hundred servers and we need to change the Local Administrator password on each one is it possbile to do this with SMS? Thanks in advance.

Changing local Administrator account password
All, How can I change the local "Administrator" password on some 500+ workstations without having to visit each machine. Is there a script or batch file that can be created and run via GPO in active directory? Or third party tool? Your response is greatly appreciated. If the file c:\PCs.txt contains a list of every

Exchange server errors
Jo...@bigpond.com microsoft public windowsnt domain On a large Windows NT LAN, it would be advantageous to be able to easily synchronize the Local Administrator's account password on each PC with the Domain Administrator's account password. Does anyone know of a utility which will update/synchronize Domain & Local

admin password
BUT, BEFORE you do that, make sure you can logon with the local Administrator account. On the logon panel, select the local computer name from the drop down list box (you may have to click Options to see this box) key administrator as the username and key the local Administrator password. If you don't know what the

Permission denied; ADO command->createparameter
James jm...@lsil.com microsoft public vc language I am trying to modify the local Administrator password for all member workstations in our domain. Being new to Windows programming (and C++) could someone post source using the API to set an account password? Since the Administrator passwords may vary per machine,

REQ: How to retrieve the Win NT local administrator account ...
What I did was go into DSRM and change the local administrator account name and password and reset the local IUSR_machinename account password. These two are notorious for being hacked, especially if your default admin account locally is called "administrator". OI have not seen it happen to the domain account as of

Change local Admin Password on NT4
I went into the computer as a domain user defined in the local computer's administrators group. I did this via pcAnywhere. When I did the rename, I entered the domain administrator account/password. I got an error message titled Computer Name Changes: The following error occurred attempting to rename the computer

Compromise?
eNTt enables an Administrator to globally change the password for a local account or service account(s) on all services on all monitored systems. Passwords can be generated automatically, if desired. eNTt enables Windows NT support and security personnel to view, manage and analyse Windows NT services on multiple