Re: Admin lockout bug?
From: karl [x y] (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 08/09/02
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From: "karl [x y]" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:26:34 -0400
Are there any services that are set to start using this disabled
administrator ID? Any drive mappings in Windows or in a login script on a
computer somewhere using the ID? Any scripts or batch files or scheduled
tasks?
"Sheila" <sheila_espanol@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uPPiwA2PCHA.212@tkmsftngp11...
> 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
> > news:Oqmn9htPCHA.2572@tkmsftngp08...
> > > 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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