Re: Admin lockout bug?

From: Sheila (sheila_espanol@hotmail.com)
Date: 08/09/02 

From: "Sheila" <sheila_espanol@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:07:07 +0800

Using computer management, under users and groups, I right clicked on the
built-in Administrator account and changed the properties. I checked the
disable account option. It has a red X on it now so I assume that I've
successfully disabled it... but then again, instead of saying that the
account is disabled, the error log shows that it's locked out...

Anyway, I created a new admin account as a replacement. It has a diff.
username.

btw, this is just Win2K pro for a multiuser desktop, not a network.

Thanks!

"Dave Sayers [MS]" <dsayers@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:#H2487tPCHA.2512@tkmsftngp12...
> Could you clarify this for us please, as it's not possible to disable the
> builtin Administrator account...
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> "Sheila" <sheila_espanol@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I disabled the default "Administrator" account and created another one
> with
> > a different name. Since then, I get failure logs from the Security logs
> > every couple of minutes.
> >
> > Sometimes the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM would try to log on but would
> > obviously fail because of "unknown username or bad password" or because
> > "Account locked out".
> >
> > I read in some newsgroup post somewhere that it's a bug in win2k that
will
> > be fixed in SP3...
> >
> > Is this really a bug or are these security attacks already?
> >
> > If it is a bug, does the SP3 really fix this?
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