Re: ACCOUNT TYPES

From: Robert Moir (bofh@mvps.org)
Date: 03/01/03 

From: "Robert Moir" <bofh@mvps.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:02:16 -0000

rick wrote:
> It seems that my kid can change her user account from a
> limited one to an administrator. I'm trying to keep her
> from downloading all the junk that she does, but it seems
> everytime I change her account to limited I check again
> in a couple of days and it is changed back to an
> administrator account.

Then, she knows a password to one or more of your administrative accounts.

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