Re: Local admin accounts gone haywire

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Howdy Frisk!

Frisk wrote:
I just logged onto a workstation as local administrator and noticed in
the users and passwords that both administrator accounts appear as
debugger users for some reason. I assumed they were administrators
originally as i could view other user documents and settings, and
change the time! I think this maybe had been set accidently by on of my
teccie staff tho when they were installing the machine.
However i checked 2 other of my workstations and when i log on as
either local or domain administrator, i dont see the users and
passwords control panel?

I would have left the gp there to make sure that really _all_ machines have applied the new policy. It can't do any harm, anyway.

I still dont think the proper priviliges have been restored yet.

I don't think so either. What confuses me is, that the error message indicates a "problem" with the "Power Users" what doesn't make any sense, since you added only admins to the restricted group.

Maybe you could check, if and when the gp got applied by using "gpresult.exe" on the client machines. Can you post the snippet of winlogon.log that indicates the error?

cheers,

Florian
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