Re: Q about "control userpasswords2" in XP home

From: Lilla (lilla@earthlink.net)
Date: 02/18/03 

From: "Lilla" <lilla@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:25:49 -0800

Roger, thank you for that excellent explanation. Ok, I will leave the
double assignments then.

This new understanding gives rise to one last question on this
subject. My account is the one that all applications have been
installed from. It might have had the "users" group membership
initially, but if so I must have removed it as it currently has only
the "Administrators" group membership. I'm assuming then that I should
add the "users" group membership to this account, and I am off to do
that. If this is not the correct action, please advise.

Thanks again,
Lilla

"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:uVIngc21CHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP10...

Unbelievable as it may sound, your system is acting as
expected. In the NT family of OSs, an account can be
a member of many, many groups. So, when one interface
sees the account has membership in Administrators it is
saying it is an administrative account, while when other
interfaces see it has membership in Users group it then
reports that it is "restricted" or "limited" (why both of
these are used is confusing, but they seem to mean the
same thing). 

--
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Lilla" <lilla@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Q about "control userpasswords2" in XP home.
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> In XP home, I create a new administrator account, and log on/off it
to
> let XP create it's folders and such.
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> When I run "control userpasswords2" I am surprised to find that this
> new account appears as a member of both "Users" **and**
> "Administrators" groups. How can this be?
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> Futher, when I clicked on  Properties button > Group Membership
> button, it said the new account has "Restricted" access.  Yet,
Control
> Panel > Users Groups, says this new account is "Computer
> Administrator".
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> Is this is normal?  Is something wrong with my system?
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> Thanks, Lilla
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