Re: admin account

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:27:54 -0500

I'm not sure what your environment is, but another common recommendation is
to create new personal accounts for each administrator, put the accounts in
the Administrators group, and then disable the Administrator account.

If you haven't already hardened your machines in other important ways, doing
this one thing might not really improve your security. Consider whether
you've done these things:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#harden

"Danny Sanders" <Danny.Sanders@cpcmed.org> wrote in message
news:#B$ivSmwCHA.2332@TK2MSFTNGP09...
> I would suggest only renaming it from the default "Administrator". If you
> "demote it" ( I assume this means change it's rights to something less
than
> administrator) you would not be able to access your computer as
> administrator. There are some things you can't do unless you are logged on
> as admin.
>
> hth
> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
> "Graham" <storm@flatearth.net.au> wrote in message
> news:e2PLhJmwCHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> > 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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