Re: Registry hack to disable password change


"Terry Caleb" <TerryCaleb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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I have written down a registry hack that I used to use to change a bit in
the registry that would not allow ANYONE to change the password (I think
also
change the username also, but I never tried it.) of a user, regardless of
their credentials. That included Domain Admins and everything.

Terry

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Terry Caleb wrote:
I used to be able to do this on Windows2000, but do not find the
registry settings or the offsets for Windows2003. What I would like
to do is be able to set a password on an account, and to not allow
anyone at all, including other administrators, to be able to change
the password or the account name. I have searched through pages
upon pages of articles, but have not found anything. Is this still
possible?

Still?

I am pretty sure you could not do that in Windows 2000 either. If
someone
is an administrator, they can do whatever they want to anything on the
machine *except* mess with encrypted files (at least not get into them
without the backed-up certificate from the account that encrypted them,
etc.)

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Shenan Stanley
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so, you are having something that works on Windows 2000
But you do not want to share this info with us,
and yu want to know how this is done on Windows 2003 ??
......

suc6
:~)


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