Re: XP Administrators

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 06/09/02 

From: "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:24:30 -0700

"drought99us" <drought99@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.176948763fccde2f989698@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Roger Abell wrote...
> >
> > The reported admin that is shown by MBSA as a SID only is
> > rather strange. It would be worth looking into the membership
> > of the Administrators group to see it there is an entry there that
> > can be removed. I have never seen an account shown as a SID
> > in the user account management interfaces on a machine that is
> > not in a domain. Then again, MBSA v1 has some known issues.
> >
>
> My DELL machine shows a DELL SID account and a Microsoft SID.

I took the post as meaning a raw SID, not a vendor account such
as SUPPORT_388945a0 If you are seeing a raw SID, how do
you know one is MS and one DELL ? A raw SID would appear
like S-1-5-21-1715567821-152049171-839522115-1003 

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Roger Abell
MVP (Windows Platform)  Associate Expert
The Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

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