Re: Benutzerkonten oft gesperrt !!!

From: Daniel Melanchthon (melanchthon_at_gmx.de)
Date: 03/10/04


Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:56:00 +0100

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com schrieb:

> Die entsprechenden Einträge müssten ja dann im Eventlog des
> DC´s zu finden sein oder bin ich da falsch ??

Hallo anonymous,

ich hab Dir mal einen Artikel rangehängt, der die Vorgehensweise
erklärt. Wer jetzt die deutsche Übersetzung genau zuordnen kann,
gewinnt. Wie heißt auf deutsch "account logon events" und "logon events"?

Auditing, or the ability to track security events in the Windows NT
security log, is a valuable tool for helping you maintain the security
of your systems. Microsoft has improved on NT's auditing features with
Windows 2000, which offers significant enhancements. In addition to
NT’s seven categories of audit events, Win2K provides two new
categories to track additional areas of activity. Let's take a close
look at Win2K's auditing capabilities and see how they differ from NT's.

Configuring Audit Policy
========================
Like NT, Win2K’s default audit policy disables each audit category, so
the security log is empty on a freshly installed system. Unlike NT,
you don't use User Manager to enable auditing in Win2K. In fact, User
Manager doesn’t work in Win2K domains. Instead, you use the Active
Directory (AD) Group Policy to enable auditing. For information on
Group Policy and Win2K's configuration process, see my column "Group
Policy".

To view Win2K's nine audit categories, go to Active Directory Users
and Computers, open a Group Policy Object (GPO), and maneuver to
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local
Policies\Audit Policy, as Figure 1 shows. As in NT, you can configure
each category to record successful and unsuccessful events. Remember
that whenever you modify a GPO, your configuration changes will apply
to all computers in the organizational units (OUs), domain, or sites
that you've linked to that GPO. For instance, if you change audit
policy in the Default Domain Policy GPO, which links to the root of
the domain, Win2K will apply that same audit policy to every computer
in the domain unless a higher priority GPO or a GPO linked to a lower
OU has a conflicting audit policy. Remember, the last policy applied
wins.

Updated Audit Categories
========================
As Figure 1 shows, Win2K has nine audit categories, including NT's
original seven, although some of the names have changed. Let's start
by looking at the seven categories you're already familiar with and
see how they've changed in Win2K.

First, Audit account management is the same as NT's User and Group
Management. This category lets you track the creation, changes, and
deletions of users and groups. Second, Audit logon events, which is
the same as NT's Logon and Logoff category, records whenever a user
attempts to log on to a system, either interactively or over the
network. This category also records failed and successful logons and
logoffs. Don’t confuse this category with Audit account logon events,
one of Win2K's new audit categories.

Third, Audit object access is the same as NT's File and Object Access.
This category lets you track access to files, directories, Registry
keys, and printers. Remember that object auditing is a two-level
activation. You must activate this auditing at the system level and
also for the specific objects that you want to audit. To enable
auditing for an object, such as a file, open the file’s Properties
dialog box from Explorer, click the Security tab, click Advanced, and
click the Auditing tab to open the Access Control Settings dialog box,
as Figure 2 shows. From this dialog box, you define which users and
which types of access to audit for the object. Fourth, Audit policy
changes corresponds to NT's Security Policy Changes. This category
lets you track changes to the system’s audit policy and rights
assignments.

Fifth, Audit privilege use is the same category as NT's Use of User
Rights. With this category, you can identify any time a user right is
exercised successfully or when someone unsuccessfully tries to use a
right that you have not assigned to that user. Sixth, Audit process
tracking (same name in NT) lets you monitor each program that executes
on the system and how long the program ran. Seventh, Audit system
events corresponds to NT's Restart, Shutdown and System. This category
lets you monitor when someone boots the system or clears the event log.

New Audit Categories
====================
In addition to the seven updated NT audit categories, Win2K includes
two new categories. The first of these, Audit account logon events,
fills an important hole in NT's logon monitoring coverage. Tracking
logon and logoff activity for domain accounts is problematic with NT
because the Logon and Logoff audit category applies more to
workstations and member servers than to domain controllers. When you
log on at your workstation with a domain account, you are not logging
on to the domain controller-the domain controller is just
authenticating you. The logon event occurs on your workstation, and NT
records the event in your workstation’s security log. Likewise, when
you map a drive to a server, you’re logging on to the server, so NT
records a logon event in the server's security log. This type of
monitoring led to a fractious record of logon activity scattered among
all the systems in the domain. To solve this problem, Win2K provides
another category of audit events, Audit account logon events, to catch
logon activity at a more centralized point-the domain controllers.
Using this category, the system traps the domain controller
authentication, as opposed to the logon that occurs at the workstation
or server. This category watches the domain controllers and records
any time a user authenticates or fails to authenticate because of a
bad password. With this new category, you can get a complete picture
of domain account logon activity by simply looking at the security
logs for your domain controllers.

Win2K's other new audit category, Audit directory service access, is
similar to Audit object access, only it applies to AD objects instead.
Remember that in Win2K, user accounts and groups are objects in AD. As
such, they have security descriptors (including an owner, access
control list-ACL, and system audit control list) like any object. If
you look at the Advanced Security dialog box for a user object in
Active Directory Users and Computers, you’ll see an Auditing tab just
as you would for any file or directory. With the system audit control
list, you can specify exactly which properties and actions you want to
audit on that object. For instance, you can specify that you want to
audit whenever someone changes the dial-in settings for a user
account. This information is valuable because it lets you track
exactly what has changed on a user or group. In addition, the
information is much more granular than what the Audit account
management category gives you (the Audit account management category
simply reports that a user or group changed-not what properties of the
object changed). With Audit directory service access, you can find out
exactly which properties changed. For instance, when an administrator
edits Jill’s user account, you’ll know whether the administrator
changed her job title or reset her password.

Win2K preserves all of NT's auditing functionality and offers some
exciting new capabilities. Don’t forget that Group Policy now controls
audit policy. Try out the new Audit account logon category so that you
can track logon activity in a more centralized manner.

Quelle:
http://www.windowsitsecurity.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=9633

Gruß!
Daniel Melanchthon

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