Re: making all users an admin of local machine by default

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:54:25 GMT

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:36:59 -0600, "Mostro" <mostro@nospamforme.com>
wrote:

>I apologize for having posted in two groups. Was not sure which group was
>more appropriate. My question is, what can I do to make sure that any user
>that ever logs onto any Windows 2000 workstation on my network is
>automatically an admin locally to that machine. I am hoping to find a
>solution short of making them domain admins. Someone please help, and thank
>you.

Add the "domain users" global group to the "administrators" local
group on the workstation.

Jeff

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