Re: Changing Admin Password

Duck wrote:
Can any account with administrative priviledges change the Admin
user's password (Win XP SP2)?

Anyone with administrative priviledges can do anything they want to the
system EXCEPT access encrypted files.

However - they can (because of the nature of the beast (EFS)) - make it
difficult for the person with the encrypted files/folders to access them -
by changing the password on the account with encrypted files. If the person
with the encrypted files did *not* follow best practices and back up the
certificate regularly for the files/folders that were encrypted - it will be
be more than 'difficult' - and closer to impossible (or entirely impractical
in terms of time it would take, cost, etc.)

And - anyone with sufficient time/access to a computer (with just a little
knowledge) will own the data on that computer.

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