Re: best practices: builtin administrator account in AD

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:26:31 -0700

additionally . . .
While it will not stop login attempts if authentication interfaces are
exposed to where you believe these threats would arise . . .
it is possible to just deny network login to even the built-in admin
account, restricting it to local login usage, but be aware that this does
not control connection to most services, but would stop such as use of
the administrative shares. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"mocity" <mocity@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB7BFBE9-A467-4BC3-8F1F-6284EF9A3DE9@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I understand that renaming the builtin AD administrator account is a good
> idea, but is disabling this account and additional good security measure?
I
> would have no problem disabling this account, except for the fact if all
> other Domain Administrative accounts got locked out I would have no way of
> logging to the domain with admin privileges except through rebooting a DC
> into Safe Mode which enables the builtin administrator account---but this
> would be a hassle. (i'm sort of paranoid of a scenario where a malicious
user
> locked out all my admin accounts, and me having to do this).
> is having this account enabled a security risk, because it cannot be
locked
> and thus gives a person infinite attempts at cracking the password?
> thanks.

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