Re: Where is Local Group Assignment Stored?

It is in the SAM and the SAM is part of the registry. Doesn't matter though, direct manipulation of any of that is absolutely unsupported. Use the published API.

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Will wrote:
Where does Windows 2003/XP store local group assignments? Is all that in
the SAM file or are the group assignments kept out of the SAM in the
registry someplace?

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