Re: Lost EFS Recovery Key for local admin

From: Jonathan (jonsteph@nospam.carolina.rr.com)
Date: 04/17/03 

From: Jonathan <jonsteph@nospam.carolina.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 03:08:22 GMT

After following this article, the first administrator-level account to
logon becomes the Recovery Agent. Since your account is in the
Administrators group, it qualifies. If you want the local
Administrator account to be the Recovery Agent, log on with that
account after reinitializing the EDRP.

 -- Jonathan

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 06:54:18 -0500, "Jim Nugent" <nuge@execpc.com>
wrote:

>Thank you!! The procedure in article 257705 did not appear to be working at
>first, but then I discovered it was generating a File Recovery Certificate
>and putting it under my personal account which is in the Administrators
>group but is not the builtin Admin account. I have no idea why, but at least
>I have a valid certificate now. I had to log in as local Administrator to
>create my account. Is there a way to change the system's notion of who gets
>the put in in the EDRP?
>
>Anyway, that's a great trick to know for Windows 2000!
>Thank you again!

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