RE: Removing Local Admin Rights...

From: Craig, Jason (jcraig_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: 05/27/04

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    To: Jay Lopez <jlopez_si86@hotmail.com>, security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:29:39 -0700

    Jay,

    None of our users have admin rights. Most apps will run fine. We've run
    into quirks with label printer software, and the usual problems with Adobe
    apps but we've been able to make things run without any problems. Most
    things are well documented, and if they're not regmon and filemon are your
    friends. We've been running this way for 3+ years and it has made our lives
    much easier.

    -j

    -----Original Message-----
    From: KEN MORRIS [mailto:KMORRIS@kpl.org]
    Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:42 PM
    To: Jay Lopez; security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: Removing Local Admin Rights...

    Jay,
    First thing I would do would be to check to see if there is any non-M$
    programs installed that are needed in the organization. IF there are,
    thoroughly test those programs under both O/S before removing local admin
    rights.
    Some software will run only under local admin user accounts. I have tried
    here and found that in certain programs there is no work around other than
    local admin to allow users to run the software. Even setting them as power
    users does not work.
    Regards,
    Ken

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Jay Lopez [mailto:jlopez_si86@hotmail.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:48 AM
    To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Subject: Removing Local Admin Rights...

    I currently work for an organization with approximately 25,000 Windows
    XP/2000 desktops in an Active Directory (AD) environment. Security from an
    OS and individual application component (i.e., Outlook 2003, MS Office, IE,
    etc.) perspective is being managed via group policy objects (GPO's).

    Currently, we are pushing to remove local administrator access rights to
    individual machines to prevent users from randomly installing unapproved
    applications, prevent malware from being silently installed within the local
    administrator context, etc. Prior to our move to AD and GPO's, we received
    push-back on removing local admin rights for reasons such as the logon
    scripts would not work, etc.

    By chance, have any of you implemented any of the above--especially the
    removal of local administrator rights? If so, what support issues did you
    experience? What impact did removing local admin rights have?

    I'd like to provide as many pros and cons back to our team based on your
    feedback.

    Thanks in advance,

    Jay Lopez

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