Re: Accessing Administrative Shares

From: Daniel Lohmann (daniel@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: 09/23/02 

From: Daniel Lohmann <daniel@uni-koblenz.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:33:48 +0200

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:34:20 GMT, Eric R Torbenson
<ert1@nospam.optonline.net> wrote:

>Chris,
>
>Could this be the new, kinder, gentler version of the classic NT error message
>"The Credentials supplied conflict with an existing set of credentials."?
>
>One NT feature is that the system generally won't let you open a connection
>to a share with an account that has more privileges than the one you're logged
>on with. It's a defense against a standard user grabbing an admin password.
>if they can't log in interactively to their system, they can't damage the
>network with that user ID. Or something like that. :)

>Test this out: Remove the mapping that exists already and try again. It should
>work.

Aehm, not that secure than, eh? The ordinary user could also remove
the existing mapping and the it works. Can't believe that it was meant
to be a security feature...

Because there is also another way. NT stores the credidentials of a
session with the name of the server. If you access the server by its
IP instead of its name you get a secondary logon:

net use \\192.168.47.11\C$ /U:Administrator

would do it.

Daniel

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