November 10, 2000 07:10 PM

Protecting the Administrator Account

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Randy Franklin Smith
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Windows 2000's built-in Administrator account needs special protection against attacks because of several idiosyncrasies that Win2K inherited from Windows NT. Each Win2K Professional workstation and Win2K member server (e.g., not a domain controller—DC) has a local SAM database that always contains at least two user accounts: Administrator and Guest. Both of these accounts are potential targets for intruders, and you can't delete either account. Although Win2K disables the Guest account b...

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The advice to create a local administrator account may be fine for a small business, but for a large corp it is not pratical. How does one protect the local admin account when the network is not available and a tech needs to get in?

Anonymous User 2/4/2005 7:19:59 AM

i'm a complete numpty and i've locked myself out of my house

Anonymous User 10/26/2004 5:44:05 AM

I dont know what i have done. I took a work computer home to do work over the weekend and have locked all the accounts out, even the administrator. is there some way that i can access my personal files?

ty 8/3/2003 8:53:48 PM

I just set up a w2k professional, created two users as the admin, and now i am locked out of the administrator account.. i thought the admin account could never be locked out. Can you help?

Jeff 3/11/2002 12:32:54 PM

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