adding EFS recovery agents

From: Andrew (foo@bar.com)
Date: 05/31/02 

From: "Andrew" <foo@bar.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:42:16 -0500

Has anyone had any luck or know how to add an EFS recovery agent on a
stand-alone machine. MS makes it sound easy, but doesn't go into detail
except for a domain model. If I try to add a recovery agent the wizard
prompts for an AD user or a cer file, but other users on the box don't have
this capacity in their certs.

Enterprise CAs can issue this type of cert, but I think only to domain
accounts. I would like to add accounts other than the built in admin as a
recovery agent but I am beginning to think it is not possible on a stand
alone machine.

Thanks for any help,

Andrew

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