local security policy

From: Casey Boone (caseyb@yourclearwave.com)
Date: 08/22/02 

From: "Casey Boone" <caseyb@yourclearwave.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:29:26 -0500

i was altering some settings in the local security policy app, wasnt
finished with them, but i had to pause what i was doing to take care of
something else.

one of the other techs wasnt aware of what i was doing and logged me out
thinking it best (as my account has admin rights, we have a standing policy
that you dont leave yourself logged in at the server with an account with
admin rights)

now i cant log into the server (noone can)

i do seem to have remote registry access (and i have the login/pass-es for
all of the ppl in the administrator group) i just cannot find where to go to
remove the policy and allow local login. i also have access through
management console on another machine.

what i was doing was trying to just lock out the "administrator" account
from logging in and anyone in the users group, but it looks like i managed
to just lock everyone out. (i even created a user who was not a member of
the users group nor the admin group, but he still couldnt log in either)

this is a stand alone server, not running as a domain controller. should i
be looking for a file on disk? should i be looking for a registry entry? i
cant seem to locate anything in either that looks like what i need.

any help would be greatly appreciated

Casey Boone

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