RE: Delete Windows 2000 Guest account

From: miro.toma@citicorp.com
Date: 10/25/01 

From: miro.toma@citicorp.com
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:19:01 +0100
Message-Id: <H00002c4084e351a@MHS>
Subject: RE: Delete Windows 2000 Guest account
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com

This reminds me on my rather old curiosity. Does anyone know where to find some
description of the HKLM\SAM registry keys and values ?

Thanks in advance,
miro
>
> Mailer: SecurityFocus
>
> Accessing the SAM through the scheduler gives you
> SYSTEM context (e.g., c:\at <time> /interactive
> regedt32). If you want to improve security by deleting
> the Guest account delete the following keys:
> HKLM\SAM\SAM\Domains\Users\000001F5
> HKLM\SAM\SAM\Domain\Users\Names\Guest
> When promoting to AD the Guest account stays
> deleted. You now have a native mode DC without a
> Guest account. Delguest.exe is not currently working
> with Windows 2000 so until then you can use this
> method.
>
> Robert A. Rota
> SAIC
>

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