Re: user account management

From: Doug Hoeffel (doug.hoeffelNo_at_SpAmMcamtronics.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:53:28 -0600

You can create another account with admin. privelages. In TD, add another
"User Account" component. This will show up as "User Account #2". Then set
the following attributes in the Advanced Settings tab: cmiUserName,
cmiUserPassword, and set cmiUserGroup = 1. 

-- 
HTH... Doug
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"GLopez" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44BFA9CD-7ABA-422B-A9E2-9B53E30B0AB0@microsoft.com...
>   Hi,
>   Where can I find how the user groups are defined? is there a Component
for that?
>  I Tried to set a user as Power User  (2) and didn't work. I though I need
to define groups or so.
>
> May be you someone can help me with this. Is there a possibility to use a
different Administrator Accound Name that "Administrator"?. Something like
"Admin",  It looks I can not change the Administrator account name in the
Admin Component. What I'm triying to avoid is having an Administrator
Account using the "Administrator" as name.
>
> GLopez
>      ----- anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote: -----
>
>      Reto,
>
>      There is a User Account component to add users and assign
>      them to groups
>
>      · cmiUserName = "FieldService"
>      · cmiUserPassword = "password"
>      · cmiUserGroup = "1"
>
>      NOTE: User groups are DEFINED as:
>      · cmiUserGroup 1 = Admin group
>      · cmiUserGroup 2 = Power User group
>      · cmiUserGroup 3 = User group
>      · cmiUserGroup 4 = Guest group
>
>      Hope this helps
>
>      >-----Original Message-----
>      >Hello,
>      >>I'm trying to reduce the footprint of my windows xp
>      embedded image.
>      >>I removed the Internet Explorer and, because of
>      unresolved
>      >dependencies also the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
>      >>The drawback is now, that I cannot manage the user
>      accounts anymore!
>      >(Enable Guest Account)
>      >>Is there a possibility to enable the guest via registry?
>      Or already in
>      >TD?
>      >>Best Regards
>      >Reto Bucher
>      >.
>      >

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