VSS Admin user issue..

VSS version: 6.0 a
Recently, I noticed that some users are logging into one of the VSS
databases with "Admin" user login. Admin user for the vss database has a
password and only VSS Admin is aware of the password.

This is the scenario:

Users login to a common PC (OS: windows XP pro or windows 2000 Pro), locally
as Local Administrator (NT user name "Admin"). They launch vss client on
that pc, connect to vss database and since “Use network name for automatic
user log in” is enabled users are automatically logged including the Admin
user that has a password. Password prompt for Admin user is completely
being bypassed. This could potentially cause many problems if users
intentionally or unintentionally do anything (such as purges..) in the
database. Also there would be no traceability for code changes (on who
has made the changes).

Is this a known bug in visual source safe? If so, is there a work around
for this problem?

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RR
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