Re: best practices info website

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 09/09/03


Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:22:22 -0600


Greetings --

    Renaming the built-in Administrator account is, I'd always
thought, standard practice in any environment interested in security.
So I was taught in my very first Microsoft networking class, by
Microsoft certified instructors, many years ago. Has that changed?

Bruce Chambers

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"joeblow" <joeblow@msn.com> wrote in message
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>
> For instance, many SAs think that the administrator
> account should be "renamed" to take away the string
> from "brute force" cracks... Yet, I've never seen this
> type of comment from within an MS community...
>
> Any comments?

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