Re: how to disable reset password in Administrator account

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 01/28/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:32:39 -0700

If you make the person an admin on the box then you must
be prepared for what the person does with that power.

What does it matter anyway if the local Administrator account
is getting its password reset ? In a domain you should have
other administrative access, and if necessary enforced via GPO
use of a restricted group. 

--
Roger
"Candy" <chiucf@msn.com> wrote in message
news:086c01c2c640$832b6120$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
> I'm an domain administrator of a small network with 1
> domain (windows 2000 Advance server) 10 XP Pro system.
> Some of the users have local administrator right. One of
> the user with local administrator always reset the
> administrator password when he login to local computer.
> He also create a reset password disk in order to prevent
> people to reset the administrator password. How can i
> prevent him to reset the local administrator password?
> Can I hide the administrator account in the Local users
> and groups in Computer Managment in any regedit.
>

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