Re: WinXP Pro security login flaw ?

From: Os (Osmond@asia-sport.com)
Date: 08/23/02 

From: "Os" <Osmond@asia-sport.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:27:44 -0700

Jai,

The guest acct is disabled and the default admin acct has
a password on it.

The problem is the machine was locked with my own admin
acct. And I went to press Ctrl+Atl... to unlock and didn't
put in the original admin password but left the username
and password blank and it allowed me to logof the admin
acct.

Osmond

>-----Original Message-----
>Do you have a guest account enabled or no password on
your default
>administrator account?
>
>jai
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>"Osmond" <osmond@asia-sport.com> wrote in message
>news:6e4701c249f0$611a08b0$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
>> Hi Pple,
>>
>> I've been playing with WinXP Pro at home without a
>> domain. And something I picked up by accident tonight,
>> was when I locked the machine during use Ctrl+Alt+Del
>> expecting it to be like Win2k to be safe.
>>
>> I deleted my username from the username box and didn't
>> put in a password and when I pressed the OK button on
the
>> login screen w/out a username and password it asked if I
>> wanted to logoff my admin acct which I found strange.
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>> Is it something to do with my settings or is this a
WinXP
>> thing.
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>> Os
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