Re: Logon Accounts Not Working

There seem to be a lot of things here.

1. People who can do anything (but who you don't think should be able to do
everything) tend to be domain administrators who have been automatically
added to the Administrators group for the server on which WSS is running.
Members of the Administrators Group can normally (there is a KB article fix)
do anything on a WSS site on that server.

2. You can also try specifying login in IE with name /password (or some
similar option) which means that your domain users who have already logged
in to the domain (perhaps when they logged in to their pc) use those
credentials automatically when accessing WSS.

3. You seem in some way to be still regarded as the administrator so it is
remembering your logging in as Administrator. Usual cache removing methods
etc. might clear this - but then log in as (normal) you but with
Administrator rights.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
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"Mujun Kross" <mujun_kross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> We are looking to use WSS for our intranet...but I have come across a
> problem.
>
> We were trying to get FrontPage 2003 to work against the site but
> everytime I tried to access the site it would constantly ask for a user
> name and password. Nothing that I did seemed to work so we had a sys
> admin log in useing an administrator aco*** and everything seemed to work
> fine. We went back and fixed some security issues and that, so we thought
> was that.
>
> However, when testing the site I noticed that whenever I amde an
> announcement change it would list the change being done by the admin
> account (from above). I went in and removed all accounts from the
> sharepoint site, except for my own, and the system still logs me in as the
> admin with full admin rights to the site.
>
> In addition we have another person here who can log onto the site and he
> is also granted full admin rights even though his account is not been
> added to the sharepoint site.
>
> I read a forum/blog/newsgroup somewhere that stated I should go and load
> Internet Explorer...open the Tools menu...Security Tab...Custom Level
> button and scrool all the way to the bottom and change "User
> Authentication" from automatic logon to "Prompt for user name and
> password".
>
> If i do this it asks me everytime for my credentials but if I go in and
> reset the user authentication to "Automatic logon only in Intranet zone" I
> am back to where I started. Also nothing I do on the other guys computer
> seems to work. he can log onto the site as himself and has full admin
> rights regardless of where this setting is at.
>
> Thanks
>
> dan
>


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