Re: best practices info website
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 09/09/03
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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
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "joeblow" <joeblow@msn.com> wrote in message news:33b501c375af$b1588180$a301280a@phx.gbl... > > > 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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