RE: XP SECURITY SETTINGS

From: Curtis Koenig [MSFT] (ckoenig_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/14/03 

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:23:39 GMT

Hi Kristy,
While adding users to a computer as normal user does automatically take
some rights from the user it sounds like you want to be more restrictive
beyond that. What you will want to consider is using the "Group Policy" or
"Local Security Policy" tools to restrict the users rights and privileges
further. However, these tools should be used with caution as they are
rather powerful and it is possible to accidentally make the machine so
secure it is unusable. I would suggest reading up on these topics in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base or TechNet sections of the Microsoft website. 

--
Curtis Koenig
Support Professional
Microsoft Clustering Technologies Support
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Security
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may benefit.  Thanks!
--------------------
>Sender: "Kirsty Kenden" <kirsty@nowayhosse.com>
>Subject: XP SECURITY SETTINGS
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:35:36 -0700
>
>My question is how can restict access to users of XP home 
>edition? I have set them up as normal users and myself as 
>the administrator for the machine but they can still 
>download programs from the internet how can i prevent them 
>from doing this. Please help me becuase this is begining 
>to show to my boss the truth, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IM 
>DOING !!!
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: GNOME Login Problem
    ... I can open an xterm using any users account. ... has rights to access anything in thier directory of the NFS-mounted ... > I think that normal user doesn't have enough rights to access the nfs ... The local root user on the client machine ...
    (RedHat)
  • RE: How does XP SP2 improve security for user
    ... to work on your machine only with admin rights. ... Therefore it is a lot better to use a normal user account for your daytime ... > Microsoft assumes that all users are having Users rights? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: script to disjoing/rejoin domain
    ... This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ... only reply to Newsgroups ... to take it to workgroup and then rejoin domain for now without calling ... By default a normal user can join 10 machines to a domain. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: Delegation issue
    ... use the delegate control wizard. ... Try it on a test OU for a test user. ... A normal user without special rights can't shutdown the server normally. ... This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
Loading