Re: Administrator rights

From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchell_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:25:58 -0700

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> said

> I am puzzled because the built in administrator is in the local
> administrators group and can not be removed form that group or be
> disabled or did you change from a domain to workgoup maybe?

You can change the built in administrator user name though, which it sounds
like he has done.
Changing the username for the admin account, then creating another user using
the 'Administrator' username but assigning no permissions is a common
'honeypot' technique. 

-- 
Andy.

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