Re: Administrator gets locked out
somebody_at_compusmart.ab.ca
Date: 12/31/04
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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:52:31 GMT
My understanding is that the built-in administrator account cannot be
locked out at the console, but can be made to follow lockout policies
for logon attempts over the network. Is this account in fact locked
out at the console?
What's the status of the guest account? It used to be recommended to
rename the administrator account for increase security (very little
benefit).
What's the access to the machine? Could the admin account have been
renamed to something different and a decoy non-admin account given the
name of administrator. In fact, can the guest account be renamed to
administrator (and administrator to guest). Check the status of the
guest account.
The SIDs will tell which is which.
Roger
"Ed Gregory" <eg@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I have a Win2000 Pro machine that is allowing the administrator account to
>be locked out. I thought that with Win2000, XP, 2003 the administrator
>account couldn't be locked out. This comes from MS tech articles. The
>user, I guess typed the password incorrect too many times and now we are
>unable to login with the administrator account. There are only two accounts
>on the system. Administrator and Guest.
>
>How do I unlock or enable the administrator account? I don't mean I do I
>recover a password, but how do I disable the account locked out flag that
>must be set in the user?
>
>Thanks.
>
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