Re: Administrator Group Accounts
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:02:16 -0700, Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Vince wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I have several user accounts that are Members of the Administrators
>> group existing in my XPpro; as seen when using Properties under
>> Computer Management/ Local Users and Groups/ Users.
>>
>> Do members of the Administrators group have equal authority rights?
>
>Yes.
>
>> Or, is there something unique about the original/default
>> Administrator?
>
>No.
>
However, I have noticed that the "default administrator" and the "
default guest" user accounts have a unique Description when viewing
Computer Management in Administrative Tools, Local Users and Groups>
Users; the Description column identifies Administrator and Guest as
being builtin accounts, for administrating the computer/domain.
Since every XP computer has those two default user accounts, my guess
is that hackers can/may exploit this fact.
>Malke
.
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