Re: SYSTEM user?

Christopher wrote:

Recently, I found a video on YouTube explaining how to access the SYSTEM user account. I followed the steps, and successfully logged in. Can someone please tell me what this user does and why it doesn't show up anywhere, including using the net -> user command in CMD.

SYSTEM isn't a user account, so it shouldn't be expected to show up via "net user" or other similar tools. Arguably it isn't an account at all, just a security identifier used by operating system processes. However it is also closely associated with the computer's account, so there's some linguistic ambiguity there.

I'm not sure what you mean by "logging in" as SYSTEM. There are a number of ways to make use of SYSTEM, usually via a command-line window, but I don't see how you would log in as SYSTEM. Can you provide a reference, or instructions?

Depending on exactly what you do mean, this might not be a safe process; SYSTEM doesn't have many of the things associated with user accounts, such as a profile, so attempting to use it in the same way you would use a user account could cause subtle (or not so subtle) damage to the OS.

Harry.
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