Re: Administrator account does not have rights

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 06/08/04


Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:43:34 -0700

Thank you, I will take your advice and hopefully we have
not been breached too badly.

Thanks again.
>-----Original Message-----
>I would say that could be a definite sign of a virus or
hack. If you are talking
>about an account that is a domain administrator, then
check to see if the domain
>admins group was removed from the local administrators
group on the computer. I would
>check membership of the local administrators group anyhow
to make sure it looks right
>and that the account you are trying is indeed in that
group and not a regular account
>renamed "administrator" which is commonly done. You could
try to run secedit as
>described in the link below to see if it fixes things,
but you probably should
>consider the server compromised unless you find a good
explanation. If you have
>auditing of logon events and account management enabled
on servers, it can help
>determine what happened in such situations assuming the
security log had not been
>erased which in itself would leave an event for. Also be
sure to change all
>administrator passwords on that server ASAP. --- Steve
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;313222
>
>"Rebecca Owens" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:19d1101c44d77$d809e2b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hey there;
>>
>> I needed to know if you guys have seen this problem
>> before. I have a 2000 server and the administrator
>> account has no rights to change anything. All of a
sudden
>> this started happening. Is there a virus or something
>> that causes that? What can I do to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks for all your help
>>
>> Rebecca
>
>
>.
>



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