Re: Domain Users v. Authenticated Users

From: Anthony Yates (anthony.spam_at_spammedout.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:39:44 -0000

Domain Users are all users in an Active Directory domain. When you create a
domain user account it is automatically a member of the group.
Authenticated Users is a builtin local group representing anything that has
authenticated to use the local machine. It could be a local user or domain
user. Critically it also includes computer accounts that have been
authenticated. Domain policies by default are applied to Authenticated
Users, which includes computers.
When you give Read access to a software library, to enable software to be
installed, you would give it to Authenticated Users so that the machine
System account could install software at startup without a logged on user.
Anthony

"Pretend Programmer" <Pretend Programmer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F67C4BDA-C750-48C8-8CC7-F98C336E5FBA@microsoft.com...
> Can someone please explain to me the differences between the Domain Users
> group and the Authenticated Users group.
>
> Thank you.