Save me from my stupidity

From: stefanT (stefanT_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:59:01 -0800

After being given "Hardening Windows Systems" for Christmas I decided to play
about with the local policy settings on my networked W2k Pro machine. I set
up a test group to check out the impact of denying local login, but, idiot
that I am, I accidentally chose the normal user group and now I can't get
back in !-(
I don't seem to be able to access the shared C drive from the network, but I
can login in as Admin from the recovery console. I tried doing a repair
install but, as I suspected, this didn't reset the policy.
Can anyone suggest a way of re-enabling local login? I can work from the
recovery console or I can boot into Linux and access the full C drive if
necessary.

StefanT

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