Re: All Administrators Equal?

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 07:18:27 -0700

Just make certain that you have control of all Administrators
group members, i.e. strong passwords on all of them.
People forget (or are unaware) that something like
I am the Sole Master of This Machine !
is a valid password (passphrase) and it is very unlikely
that it would be cracked. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Alan P. Biddle" <APBIDDLE@ATT.NET> wrote in message
news:572gb0dnhrta6h5gtbfk18sghf3mvd78qd@4ax.com...
> Roger,
>
> Thanks for the info.  I had not noticed that the upgrade process had
> generated a second Admin account, and was wondering.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
>

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