admin account

From: Graham (storm@flatearth.net.au)
Date: 01/22/03 

From: "Graham" <storm@flatearth.net.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:11:55 +1100

Hi
I have been reading in this group that the "Administrator" account should be
demoted for security reasons.
I tried to remove its membership as a Administrator, but an error msg told
me I can not remove this privilege as it is a built in account.

Any help on this procedure to secure the admin account would be appreciated

Thankyou

Graham

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