Re: Can I clone Administrator?
From: No Go (concealed4security@purposes.net)
Date: 10/08/02
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From: "No Go" <concealed4security@purposes.net> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:47:14 -0500
I had not remembered doing so, but others here had mentioned it.
"Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:#mkY6SobCHA.508@tkmsftngp12...
> No, you don't want to rename the profile folder. That is never renamed
> when you change the name of an account.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
> (Please respond only in the newsgroup)
>
> Opus <opus@bloomcounty.net> wrote:
>
> > I should note also that if you rename Administrator, you may have to
> > also rename the Administrator folder in Documents and Settings. I
> > don't recall having to do that when I renamed Administrator in
> > servers for the DoD, but I may just be forgetting.
> >
> > "Opus" <opus@bloomcounty.net> wrote in message
> > news:uVE6wRnbCHA.1700@tkmsftngp10...
> >> You should always, ALWAYS, have a second administrator account. All
> >> you have to do is create a second user using User Accounts and set
> >> it as a Computer Administrator. (This can also be accomplished
> >> manually using the Computer Management console under Control
> >> Panel/Administrative Tools. Open Local Users and Groups and then
> >> open Users. Select New User in the action menu and enter the user
> >> name and password and press Create. Then, double-click the user in
> >> the right pane of the console to open and select the members tab.
> >> Press the Add button, type the word 'administrators' in the white
> >> box and press OK. Then press OK again.) Both procedures do the
> >> same thing, but sometimes I just like the added control of the
> >> longer method.
> >>
> >> For added security, you can rename the original Administrator
> >> account. The U.S. Department of Defense actually requires this for
> >> its Windows2k/XP servers. To rename the Administrator account, you
> >> must use the Computer Management console as the User Accounts dialog
> >> does not offer the functionality. To rename an account in the CMC,
> >> right click on the account name in the right pane of the CMC with
> >> the Users folder selected. (Warning: DO NOT rename the
> >> 'Administrators' group. Be sure you have Users selected on the
> >> left.) Select Rename on the context menu and give it any name you
> >> like. Nothing changes except the name of the account. It still has
> >> all of the privileges that it had before, but you must now login to
> >> that account with the new name. Note: The password is not changed
> >> by this procedure.
> >>
> >> Although I have not confirmed this, it may be requiring you to
> >> create an Administrator account when you are using the XP Welcome
> >> Screen login process. When this is setup correctly, the main
> >> Administrator account should never appear in the list, and you
> >> should always have an account in the list that has administrator
> >> privilege. This does not have to be a clone of the Administrator.
> >> It must simply be a member of the Administrators group. Unless
> >> something very unusual happened, the software you installed using
> >> the original Administrator account will be available to the second
> >> administrator as well as the limited account--except those programs
> >> that have been restricted to regular users. You may have to do some
> >> trial and error to get things working with the limited account. If
> >> you are using NTFS, you may have to set some privileges in the file
> >> system. Moreover, some games that I installed as Administrator
> >> would not work until I expanded the permissions of the games'
> >> registry entries to include regular users. Note: To set privileges
> >> in the registry, you must use regedt32 instead of regedit.
> >>
> >> "Allan" <akirson@fleetpath.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1214201c26e44$c6988130$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> I've been running for 6 months with ONLY the Administrator
> >>>> account... Now to add a limited account it says I must first add
> >>>> an administrator account. From looking over messages here in the
> >>>> newsgroup, it appears that I should have done this right away, and
> >>>> then had a John Doe Administrator, with the original Administrator
> >>>> out of sight somehwere by default.
> >>>>
> >>>> The problem is that if I now make myself John Doe Adminstrator I
> >>>> don't have access to many of the programs I installed in the last
> >>>> five months. From what I've read it isn't a simple matter to just
> >>>> move a short cut from the Administrator to John Doe Administrator.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any way to clone my current Administrator so that when I
> >>>> sign in as John Doe Administrator I'll have access to all the same
> >>>> programs? I don't care about the desktop and that sort of thing
> >>>> because that's easy to change. It's all the other stuff that's a
> >>>> problem (like Palm Desktop, one of the most important apps I
> >>>> run....)
> >>>
> >>> Dennis,
> >>> I have exactly the same problem - I'll be following this
> >>> thread with interest, and ask that if you find a
> >>> solution, to please let me know. I'll do the same.
> >>> Allan
>
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