Re: Renaming of administrators account
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:40:25 -0500
501c3help <501c3help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe so but the "script kiddies" will definitly go after
"Administrator". I have an SBS box that about once a week gets
assaulted from the Internet with about 200 attempts to logon as
"Administrator"
Yep - but failing, right? And on what ports?
Outside of SBS, I have no problem renaming it - but my experience last time
I did this in SBS left me very wary.
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
Henrik <hear01@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
Im maybe way out of base here... this Is just a double check..
Have the first customer now that wants to rename according to best
practises... Ive seen i some posts in other forums that renaming the
administrators account not always Is working.
I've had problems with it in SBS in two different sites - a bug in
"SBS monitoring" made it crash when I renamed the account - didn't
become obvious this was the cause til I'd been on a PSS call for two
days.
Best practise says to rename.
Not in my book. Any hacker worth his / her salt knows not to look
for the name, but the SID.
In what cases can i expect problems In a good install with no
services configured with the administrators account, or mapped
drives using
the same account?
See above. You may have no problems, or you may. To me, it's not
worth it - just set up a really really really good password. Your
mileage may vary.
I do asume that the administrators account Is not used in a
"default" installation and there fore can have this recomendation
In the Best practises guide In SBS.
TIA
//Henrik
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