Re: Adding domain users as local XP administrators...

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:52:09 -0600

doders wrote:
> *Hi... Can you explain exactly how you do this. I have a group of XP
> users that need to install software on their PC's, and the only way I
> have found to get around it is to create local user accounts on their
> pc's with admin access.

TheGuy wrote:
> Open your local computer management.
> Open your admin group.
> Add.
> Location is your local machine.
> Hit the Advanced Button.
> Find Now for all.
> Select the Authenticated group.
>
> That's it.

Or open a command prompt and look into the "net localgroup" command. With
this you could conceivably do it remotely.

ie: net localgroup "administrators" "DOMAIN\username" /add
     or
     net localgroup "administrators" "DOMAIN\groupname" /add

It's a bad idea to allow most end-users to do this, IMHO. 

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