Re: Locking down the Domain Administrator Account

From: Keith W. McCammon (km@km.com)
Date: 02/05/03 

From: "Keith W. McCammon" <km@km.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:42:29 -0500

Security through obscurity. Of course...

> Microsoft recommends renaming the Administrator account
> and giving it a secure password and then creating another
> account called Administrator with almost no rights on the
> network so if a hacker gets the password it has no rights
> on your network.

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